TODO List and Ideas

This is where we hold a TODO list. We'll try to keep this as much organized as we can...

Internals

• Idea! Move modules that export global functions (like IO.cc) to another folder, keeping there only modules that export new types and its methods.
• Idea! First class methods, functions and types.
• Array<>, Map<>, Set<>, Hash<> and List<> types
• Fix argument checking in function call
• Allow function overload just like method does
• Derived type checking
• AST Transfomer for optimization in the AST
• Implement Clever object file loader
• Object iterator interface (rewind(), next() etc)
• Exception handling support
• Some kind of binary data type (sockets, file IO, etc).

I/O modules (mainly Filestream)

• Filestream
  • Add unlink method
  • Add touch method

OS API helpers

• Start process (with or without waiting for it to finish), capturing or not the exit code, etc.
• Fork (*nix only, since the Windows kernel doesn't provide any kind of forking techniques)
• Threads
• Sleep function

Sockets module

• Create UdpSocket type.
• Add name resolution support
• Add some method to check if the TcpSocket is still connected (.connected() maybe?)
• Add error control on send and receive methods.
• Use some kind of binary type - sent strings will be encoded as binary data prior to sending and received data will be decoded as string.
• Using binary types, change the receive method to get only N (specified) bytes, not until there's no more data. So more complex applications (with binary data transmission) can be ported/implemented. Also, remove the non-blocking stuff - the user should poll() the socket first to know if there's more data.

Test-runner

• Port the entire test-runner suite to clever (needs a lot of things to be done first).