docs/TODO

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   3 General:
   4     - add chat bot for #mal
   5     - move tokenizer.mal and reader.mal from malc along with
   6       ./examples/{equality,memoize,pprint,protocols}.mal and
   7       ./core.mal to ./lib directory
   8
   9     - Finish guide.md
  10         - mention that identifier names are suggested. some have run
  11           into collisions with READ,EVAL,PRINT in case insensitive
  12           languages
  13
  14 All Implementations:
  15     - regular expression matching in runtest
  16     - add re (use in rep) everywhere and use that (to avoid printing)
  17     - fix stepA soft failures: lua matlab miniMAL perl racket
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  19 Other ideas for All:
  20     - propagate/print errors when self-hosted
  21     - redefine (defmacro!) as (def! (macro*))
  22     - Fix/implement interop in more implementations
  23
  24     - metadata on symbols (as per Clojure)
  25     - metadata as a map only. ^ merges metadata in the reader itself.
  26       Line numbers in metadata from reader.
  27     - protocols!
  28         - https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie
  29         - http://www.toccata.io/2015/01/Mapping/
  30     - namespaces
  31         - environments first class: *ENV*, *outer* defined by env-new
  32         - namespaces is *namespaces* map in environment which maps namespace
  33           names to other environments.
  34         - def! become an alias for (env-set! *ENV* 'sym value)
  35         - Namespace lookup: go up the environment hierarchy until
  36           a *namespaces* map is found with the namespace name being
  37           looked up. Then the symbol would be looked up starting in
  38           the namespace environment. Need protocols first probably.
  39
  40     - multi-line REPL read
  41     - loop/recur ?
  42     - gensym reader inside quasiquote
  43     - standalone executable
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  48 Bash:
  49     - explore using ${!prefix*} syntax (more like make impl)
  50     - GC
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  52 C:
  53     - come up with better way to do 20 vararg code
  54
  55 C#:
  56     - accumulates line breaks with mal/clojurewest2014.mal
  57     - interop: http://www.ckode.dk/programming/eval-in-c-yes-its-possible/
  58
  59 CoffeeScript:
  60     - make target to compile to JS
  61
  62 Go:
  63     - consider variable arguments in places where it makes sense
  64         https://gobyexample.com/variadic-functions
  65
  66 Haskell:
  67     - TCO using seq/bang patterns:
  68       http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9149183/tail-optimization-guarantee-loop-encoding-in-haskell
  69     - immediately exits mal/clojurewest2014.mal ("\/" exception)
  70
  71 Java:
  72     - build step, don't use mvn in run script
  73     - Use gradle instead of mvn
  74         http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/05/01/modern-java/
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  76 Javascript:
  77     - interop: adopt techniques from miniMAL
  78
  79 Make:
  80     - allow '_' in make variable names
  81     - hash-map with space in key string
  82     - errors should propagate up from within load-file
  83     - GC: expore using "undefined" directive in Make 3.82
  84
  85 Mal:
  86     - line numbers in errors
  87     - step5_tco
  88
  89 miniMAL:
  90     - figure out why {} literals are "static"/persistent
  91
  92 ObjPascal:
  93     - verify that GC/reference counting works
  94     - fix comment by itself error at REPL
  95
  96 plpgsql:
  97     - maybe combine wrap.sh and run
  98
  99 Perl:
 100     - fix metadata on native functions
 101     - fix extra line breaks at REPL
 102
 103 Postscript:
 104     - add negative numbers
 105     - fix blank line after comments
 106     - fix command line arg processing (doesn't run file specified)
 107
 108 Powershell:
 109     - convert function with "abc_def" to "abc-def"
 110     - remove extraneous return statements at end of functions
 111     - remove unnecessary semi-colons
 112     - use ArrayList instead of Array for performance
 113     - new test to test Keys/keys as hash-map key
 114     - test *? predicates with nil
 115
 116 R:
 117     - tracebacks in errors
 118     - fix running from different directory
 119
 120 Racket
 121     - metadata on collections
 122
 123 Rust:
 124     - fix 'make all' invocation of cargo build
 125
 126 Scala
 127     - readline
 128     - fix exception when finished running something on command line
 129
 130 VHDL:
 131     - combine run_vhdl.sh and run
 132
 133 vimscript:
 134     - combine run_vimscript.sh and run