1 Legend: - means planned/unreleased
3 * means finished/released
5 Following is a list of all planned and implemented features.
6 The topmost notes planned features for the release after the current one.
7 The second is the current state. Followed by any older releases
10 - MaLa 0.3 (planed features)
12 - ringbuffer for the program
13 - secondary types within the descriptor
14 types: dirty, int, float, mp ...
15 - source refactoring and cleanup
18 - for data (MRU dead queue, whatever) (maybe)
20 - modules/loaders produce macros instead engine->program (--MALARC --COMMANDLINE ...)
21 - hierachical expansion parser (start with '--' then, else if '-..')
22 - accumulate/robust errorchecking (less if()'s compound check)
23 - segv handler instead ENOMEM checking in experimental branch
24 - prereserve objects in freelists/wordtable for errorhandlers
25 - mala_alloc wraper (general fault injection lib)
26 - general identifier naming rules enforcement
27 - better API for parameter-passing in parsers
29 - dynamic preprocessor substitutions ({ becomes --BEGIN, } becomes --END) like subst macros
30 - voluntary typesystem with inheritance
31 - --STOP instruction yields MALA_ESTOP
38 - Texinfo Programmer doc
43 - make BUGS part of the testsuite
45 - test libmala by linking with it
46 - superstatic / dynamic build
49 - MaLa 0.2 (in progress)
50 Derived from the first hackerlab reference implementation
52 * expansions while pushback_program .. less bucket/string copy issues
53 * refactor stringlist api (no direct CIRCLEQ calls)
54 * define order of expansions
55 * actioninit takes 'parent' char* , brief/help become own actions
56 * new mala_strings shared, buckets, lookup, copy on write
57 * array for common names (instead string lookup)
58 * constant initialized strings (either part, data or descriptor are const)
59 * accumulate/robust errorchecking (less if()'s compound check)
60 * *_dump needs stream handle (instead stderr)
62 * prepend unknown words with --DEFAULT-PARSER on mala_engine_run (defaults to --LITERAL)
63 * expansions dont do magic
64 * foo=bar becomes --SETENV foo bar
65 * ! --FOO becomes --NOT --FOO
66 * implement general --BEGIN --END blocks (compile to --BLOCK-nnnn with delayed evaluation)
67 * '_' is used internally as (namespace) delimiter
68 (underscore expansion prevents users from using it)
71 + --SIGNATURE_--MACRO argumentspecs
72 + --RESULT_--MACRO returnspec
73 - --PRINTL prints blocks too
74 - parsers for things generated by expansions
79 - general help for modules and mala (--HELP_MALA --HELP_STD etc)
81 * macros for common parsers MALA_SUBSTITUTE_PARSER("FOO","BAR") etc.
83 * mala program install
84 * output to stdout or error to stderr
87 * MaLa 0.1 (was never implemented for glibc)
88 Hackerlab reference implementation, incomatible with future stuff