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 - secondary types within the descriptor
13 types: dirty, int, float, mp ...
14 - source refactoring and cleanup
15 - modules/loaders produce macros instead engine->program (--MALARC --COMMANDLINE ...)
16 - accumulate/robust errorchecking (less if()'s compound check)
17 - segv handler instead ENOMEM checking in experimental branch
18 - pre-reserve objects in freelists/wordtable for errorhandlers
19 - general identifier naming rules enforcement
20 - enhanced mala trace/debugger
21 - mala-states to common strings mala_state_parser substitutes current state?
22 - SEGV handler (setjump after sideeffects, rollback in case of segv, garbage collect, retry)
23 - refactor "--WORLD" lookup
24 - change engine.program and engine.arguments to --PROGRAM and --ARGUMENTS
25 --ENGINE / --BUCKET too
27 - voluntary typesystem with inheritance
28 - --STOP instruction yields MALA_ESTOP
29 - --ESCAPE --UNESCAPE for strings
30 - split --ERROR-FOO to --ERROR FOO (--DEF --ERROR --ERROR_%-1 as default handler)?
31 - comma to list key = val1, val2, val3 -> --DEF key --BEGIN val1 val2 val3 --END
32 - --SCOPE words can be attached to --SCOPE instead of --WORLD, --SCOPE itself is child of its environment (block or whatever) and deleted with it, new envs create a new --SCOPE
39 - Texinfo Programmer doc
40 - Texinfo User doc generated by MaLa
41 - Security System / Sandboxing
45 - make BUGS part of the testsuite
47 - test libmala by linking with it
48 - superstatic (-ffunction-sections) / dynamic build
50 - getopt compatibility interface
53 + MaLa 0.2 (in progress)
54 Derived from the first hackerlab reference implementation
56 * refactor stringlist api (no direct CIRCLEQ calls)
57 * actioninit takes 'parent' char* , brief/help become own actions
58 * new mala_strings shared, buckets, lookup, copy on write
59 * array for common names (instead string lookup)
60 * constant initialized strings (either part, data or descriptor are const)
61 * accumulate/robust errorchecking (less if()'s compound check)
63 * replace --NULL with --PASS
64 * add MALA_REMOVE state which suppresses side-effects (MALA_SIDEEFFECT macro?)
65 (-IF foo --PRINT bar instead --IF foo --BEGIN --PRINT bar --END)
68 * expansions dont do magic
69 * foo=bar becomes --SETENV foo bar
70 * ! --FOO becomes --NOT --FOO
71 + preprocessor in mala (--PREPROCESS ...)
72 * define order of expansions
73 - literal_expansion `foo becomes --LITERAL, where ` is the default of --LITERAL-EXPANSION-CHAR
74 - backquote_expansion ``foo becomes `foo without literal expansion (escaping of literal expansion)
75 - numsplit_expansion -a10 becomes -a 10
76 - exclam_expansion ! becomes --NO ... TODO normal macro
77 - no_expansion --NO-foo or --no-foo becomes --NO --foo
78 - assign_expansion --foo=bar becomes --foo bar
79 - char_expansion -abc+def123 becomes -a -b -c +d +e +f 123
80 - plus_expansion +a becomes --NO -a
81 - underscore_expansion --foo_bar becomes --foo-bar
82 - bracket_expansion [foo bar] becomes --SECTION foo bar
83 - assign_contraction foo = bar becomes foo=bar for setenv_expansion
84 - envvar_expansion foo$bar or foo${bar} becomes --ENVSUBST foo${bar}
85 - setenv_expansion foo=bar becomes --SETENV foo bar
86 - brace_expansion { becomes --BEGIN and } becomes --END where { is the default value of --OPENING-BRACE and } is the default value of --CLOSING-BRACE
87 - list_expansion foo,bar,baz becomes --BEGIN foo bar baz --END where , is the default value of --LIST-SEPARATOR
88 - comand_expansion foo becomes --foo when --foo is a defined action
89 * implement general --BEGIN --END blocks (compile to --BLOCK-nnnn with delayed evaluation)
90 * '_' is used internally as (namespace) delimiter
91 (underscore expansion prevents users from using it)
92 * prefix macros like --NOT etc. evaluate %1
93 * --BEGIN already selects if it is a macro, expansion or substitution (unnamed macro)
96 + --SIGNATURE_--MACRO argumentspecs
97 + --RESULT_--MACRO returnspec
98 - --PRINTL prints blocks too
99 - parsers for things generated by expansions
100 - --ONCE macro expands and --DELetes macro
104 - Buildin Help system
105 - explain macro-types: Predicate Procedure Function Literal
106 - general help for modules and mala (--HELP_MALA --HELP_STD etc)
108 + macros for common parsers MALA_PARSER_SIMPLE("FOO", foo_parser) etc.
110 * mala program install
111 * output to stdout or error to stderr
113 - big code cleanup (fixing TODO/BUG)
115 * MaLa 0.1 (was never implemented for glibc)
116 Hackerlab reference implementation, incomatible with future stuff