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Minimum Profit Scripting Language (mpsl) TODO / Bug List
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Release Critical Bugs
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 * 1128: Document the _ array in functions.
 * 1129: Document the new multithreading support.

Open Bugs
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 * 1108: Document the 'executable component in compact symbols'
   feature.
 * 1112: Document the difference regarding local variable access in
   named and anonymous subroutines.
 * 1119: Fix bincall() in 64 bit systems.
 * 1127: Document the new inverse calling syntax.

Pending Enhancements
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 * 1024: Implement the `continue' directive.
 * 1069: Implement a C-like for() instruction.
 * 1083: Implement a split() that uses regular expressions.
 * 1095: Accept "local var" everywhere a symbol name is accepted.
 * 1109: There must be possible to have executable components with
   arguments in compact symbols (as in 'h.code(a1,a2).other').
 * 1115: Add C++ style comments.
 * 1120: Invert split() arguments.
 * 1121: Invert join() arguments.
 * 1122: Invert sscanf() arguments.
 * 1123: Invert regex() arguments.
 * 1124: Invert sregex() arguments.
 * 1125: Invert map() arguments.
 * 1126: Invert grep() arguments.

Closed
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 * 1011: Will the scripting language be included here, or as a
   separated package? it could poison the mpdm concept as a 'low
   level utility library' (Yes; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 09:51:55 +0100).
 * 1010: Find a name for the scripting language (Mpsl should be
   fine; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 09:52:32 +0100).
 * 1021: Merge mpsl (the scripting language) lex and yacc files from
   CVS project filp2 (Thu, 09 Dec 2004 11:55:42 +0100).
 * 1034: Implement ++ and -- (Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:15:25 +0100).
 * 1035: Implement +=, -=, *=, /= (Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:15:28 +0100).
 * 1036: Implement the 'local' variable creation in mpsl.
   (Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:06:53 +0100).
 * 1038: Implement the '&&' and '||' boolean operands
   (Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:02:12 +0100).
 * 1039: SUB_PREFIX and SUB_POSTFIX should be only one instruction,
   that create the prefix / execute things / destroy the prefix,
   instead of two (Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:08:38 +0100).
 * 1040: MPSL_OP_SYMNAM (SYMBOL) should not exist; it should just
   be a MPSL_OP_LIST (Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:49:10 +0100).
 * 1041: MPSL_OP_SYMLIST (SYMLIST) should not exist, and be just
   a MPSL_OP_LIST. Also, it should have only one argument
   with the list of symbols, and not an undefined number or arguments.
   (Fri, 24 Dec 2004 18:26:26 +0100).
 * 1042: The local t = v instruction is very buggy; it should be
   implemented as a ';' instruction with the local and the assignation
   part and the arguments to LOCAL and to '=' should be instructions and
   not values (Fri, 24 Dec 2004 18:49:29 +0100).
 * 1046: Subroutine definitions are using MPSL_OP_SUB that is
   really the substract opcode (Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:26:32 +0100).
 * 1022: Implement return values for mpsl functions (Closed by #1052;
   Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:30:37 +0100).
 * 1049: Multiple instructions are buggy; they should always have
   two arguments (Though the parser now spits 18 shift/reduce conflicts,
   everything seems to be fine; Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:32:57 +0100).
 * 1055: Implement the 'FOREACH' opcode (Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:31:55 +0100).
 * 1053: Implement the 'RANGE' opcode (Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:55:04 +0100).
 * 1056: Add c-style strings (\n, \t, etc) (Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:22:50 +0100).
 * 1057: Add a mpsl_compile_file() function (Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:31:13 +0100).
 * 1060: Though local symbol names must be single to the
   parser, they need to be accesible / assignable as
   complex values with mpdm_sget() / mpdm_sset()
   (Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:20:51 +0100).
 * 1061: Implement the %= operator (Mon, 07 Mar 2005 07:45:05 +0100).
 * 1062: Add line info to syntax errors (Mon, 07 Mar 2005 08:15:17 +0100).
 * 1059: Add support for anonymous subroutines (for doing,
   for example, a = sub { code; }) (Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:30:16 +0100).
 * 1023: Implement the 'break' directive in mpsl
   (Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:32:19 +0100).
 * 1052: Implement the 'return' directive in mpsl
   (Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:32:34 +0100).
 * 1050: Document the virtual machine (Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:32:49 +0100).
 * 1060: The compiler should use a cache for literal string
   values (Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:16:24 +0100).
 * 1066: Rename all symbols starting with _ (Thu, 26 May 2005 20:41:46 +0200).
 * 1067: Allow assignations in while() condition
   (Tue, 12 Jul 2005 07:54:49 +0200).
 * 1065: Add the filename to compilation errors
   (Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:15:04 +0100).
 * 1054: Add a main() function, similar to the filp one
   (Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:59:36 +0100).
 * 1070: Add an INC array to be used as a search path when
   loading mpsl code (Tue, 08 Nov 2005 15:57:02 +0100).
 * 1064: Compilation errors should be stored somewhere
   (not just printed on stdout) (Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:21:41 +0100).
 * 1058: Function execution should bang when the
   function is not found, or at least exist a default
   handler function for it (Closed by #1071;
   Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:28:27 +0100).
 * 1072: Add parsing of hexadecimal numbers
   (Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:32:52 +0100).
 * 1073: Add parsing of octal numbers
   (Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:33:00 +0100).
 * 1076: Add a mpsl_died global variable to abort further execution
   (Changed to mpsl_abort; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:11:33 +0200).
 * 1079: Add a unified way (a function) to set MPSL errors
   (Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:33:51 +0200).
 * 1078: Add an eval() function (Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:19:15 +0200).
 * 1077: Add a die() function (renamed to error();
   Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:26:21 +0200)
 * 1080: The INC array must be get using mpsl_get_symbol() instead
   of mpdm_hget_s() (Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:24:55 +0200).
 * 1071: Undefined functions should get better support
   (Wed, 03 May 2006 08:22:43 +0200).
 * 1074: The mpsl command line tool should also search code in
   the current directory (Wed, 03 May 2006 13:28:31 +0200).
 * 1085: The mpsl interpreter program should accept a program from stdin
   (Wed, 03 May 2006 13:28:41 +0200).
 * 1086: Using return() with a value from inside a while() loop
   fails (Sat, 13 May 2006 13:58:42 +0200).
 * 1087: Using return() with a value from inside a foreach() loop
   fails (Sat, 13 May 2006 14:00:19 +0200).
 * 1063: Create a sprintf()-like library function
   (Implemented in mpsl; Tue, 23 May 2006 18:17:05 +0200).
 * 1089: Change the load() function from a function library to an opcode.
   (Not necessary; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:17:41 +0200).
 * 1090: Change mpsl_compile_file() to accept the INC as argument instead
   of using mpsl_get_symbol() (needs #1089 closed)
   (Not done; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:18:24 +0200).
 * 1091: Change mpsl_get_symbol() and mpsl_set_symbol() to be static, so
   only opcodes can manipulate it (needs #1090 closed)
   (Not done; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:18:56 +0200).
 * 1088: Change the virtual machine to propagate the local symbol table
   in an argument instead of being a global list
   (Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:19:13 +0200).
 * 1082: Implement a Perl-like map() function (Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:15:26 +0200).
 * 1075: Finish the quick reference guide (Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:45:38 +0200).
 * 1081: Implement a Perl-like grep() function (Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:49:53 +0200).
 * 1084: Implement the foreach(local var, list) construction
   (Closed by #1095; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:05:07 +0200).
 * 1096: Implement an optimizer that 'executes' all MPSL core instructions
   and converts to LITERAL all the LIST and HASH instructions that have only
   LITERAL instructions as arguments (Sat, 07 Oct 2006 12:45:03 +0200).
 * 1100: Fix yy_input_for_flex() to not fail if wctomb() returns > 1
   (Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:49:46 +0200).
 * 1097: Investigate why flatten() makes the 'symval 2' stress test fails
   and fix it (mpsl_exec_i() was sweeping values still in use;
   Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:25:41 +0200).
 * 1099: Enable flatten() (needs #1097 fixed)
   (renamed to constant_fold(); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:26:05 +0200).
 * 1093: Change the parser to directly create wide char strings
   (Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:44:00 +0200).
 * 1094: Implement chars (\x1b) and wide chars (\x{1234}) in strings
   (needs #1093 closed) (Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:56:16 +0200).
 * 1098: Change the 'LIST' and 'HASH' parser so that the opcode is inserted
   when it's completed (all list elements pushed) and not at the beginning,
   as both opcodes are the best to benefit from constant_fold()
   (Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:03:12 +0200).
 * 1104: Implement strings separated by backslash plus newline
   (Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:20:19 +0200).
 * 1103: Document the 'l' flag in regex()
   (Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:25:52 +0200).
 * 1102: Document the changes to the LIST and HASH opcodes in the
   internals document (Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:50:57 +0200).
 * 1092: The local symbol table description in the internals document
   is outdated (Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:00:12 +0200).
 * 1107: Anonymous code in functions (as in map()) should have the
   same local symbol context as the subroutine/block that calls it.
   Currently doesn't work because anonymous subs have its own
   subroutine frame instead of the caller's (they are subroutines,
   after all) (Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:51:20 +0200).
 * 1114: getenv() crashes if the environment variable does not
   exit (Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:10:07 +0200).
 * 1113: Anonymous subroutines still can't access the local subroutine
   frame, even when created as block frames
   (Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:28:13 +0100).
 * 1105: Document the backslash + newline separation of strings
   (Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:36:59 +0100).
 * 1101: Document the \x{HHHH} syntax for strings
   (Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:40:59 +0100).
 * 1051: Finish documentation for the scripting language
   (Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:49:00 +0100).
 * 1116: Changed foreach() to _always_ create the iterator variable
   as local (Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:10:48 +0100).
 * 1117: Double backslashes in strings fail
   (Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:46:15 +0200).
 * 1111: Change write() to include a variable argument length
   (Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:20:03 +0100).
 * 1068: Implement a dumper function to dump an mpdm_t as mpsl source code
   (Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:13:28 +0200).
 * 1106: Implement the sscanf() function (similar to the one in filp)
   (Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:51:54 +0200).
 * 1118: Document the sscanf() function
   (Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:41:01 +0200).
 * 1110: Change the trace system to an executable mpdm_t value
   (Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:58:46 +0100).

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