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diff --git a/FUTURES b/FUTURES deleted file mode 100644 index 861cf503..00000000 --- a/FUTURES +++ /dev/null @@ -1,95 +0,0 @@ - Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - - Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, - are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright - notice and this notice are preserved. - -This file lists future projects and enhancements for gawk. Items are listed -in roughly the order they will be done for a given release. This file is -mainly for use by the developers to help keep themselves on track, please -don't bug us too much about schedules or what all this really means. - -For 4.1 -======= - DONE: Merge gawk/pgawk/dgawk into one executable - - DONE: Merge xmlgawk -l feature - - DONE: Merge xmlgawk XML extensions (via source forge project that - works with new API) - - DONE: Integrate MPFR to provide high precision arithmetic. - - DONE: Implement designed API for loadable modules - - DONE: Redo the loadable modules interface from the awk level. - - DONE: Consider really implementing BWK awk SYMTAB for seeing what - global variables are defined. - - Continue code reviews / code cleanup - - Nuking overly deep macros... - - Consider making shadowed variables a warning and not - a fatal warning when -lint=fatal - -For 4.2 -======= - Think about how to generalize indirect access. Manuel Collado - suggests things like - - foo = 5 - @"foo" += 4 - - Also needed: - - indirect calls of built-ins - indirect calls of extension functions - indirect through array elements, not just scalar variables - - Consider relaxing the strictness of --posix. - - Consider removing use of and/or need for the protos.h file. - - Consider moving var_value info into Node_var itself - to reduce memory usage. - - Rework management of array index storage. (Partially DONE.) - - DBM storage of awk arrays. Try to allow multiple dbm packages. - - ? Add an optional base to strtonum, allowing 2-36. - - ? Optional third argument for index indicating where to start the - search. - - ?? A RECLEN variable for fixed-length record input. PROCINFO["RS"] - would be "RS" or "RECLEN" depending upon what's in use. - *** Could be done as an extension. - - ?? Use a new or improved dfa and/or regex library. - - ??? Gnulib - -Probably never: -=============== - Do an optimization pass over parse tree? - - Consider integrating Fred Fish's DBUG library into gawk. - - Make awk '/foo/' files... run at egrep speeds (how?) - - ? Have strftime() pay attention to the value of ENVIRON["TZ"] - - Add a lint check if the return value of a function is used but - the function did not supply a value. - - Consider making gawk output +nan for NaN values so that it - will accept its own output as input. - NOTE: Investigated this. GLIBC formats NaN as '-nan' - and -NaN as 'nan'. Dealing with this is not simple. - - Enhance FIELDWIDTHS with some way to indicate "the rest of the record". - E.g., a length of 0 or -1 or something. May be "n"? - - Make FIELDWIDTHS be an array? |