mirah_one_point_oh_feature_list

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TODO List For 1.0

• Finish closures

  • wrap new closure implementation so that this isn't an issue: mirah/mirah#276
  • stabby lambdas
    • potato: add to parser w/ compiler error
  • non-local return
    • potato: just disallow return inside blocks converted into closures that aren't lambdas
  • nested bindings: they should work nicely
  • Java 8 MetaLambdaing when targeting 8. It'd be cool if we could use Java 8's lambda impl when on 8

• access level modifiers / synchronized

  • modify class scope so that it has retains state about access levels
  • attach modifiers to method definitions based on access level state
  • read modifiers from code gen--some of this is done

• case expression

  • potato
    • add to parser w/o adding to compiler. done
    • convert to naive if elsif
  • figure out what the callback for when is
  • wire into typer / compiler
  • specialize certain types for case statements--eg enums / nums should -> jump table

• extensions

  • define syntax in parser
  • wire in implementation
  • add extension methods to arrays / lists to bring them to partity
  • mirah/mirah#265

• interface default methods

  • jvms before 8?
    • linearize interfaces w/ default methods, get set of signatures, c&p impl into class
  • issues:
  • mirah/mirah#279

• generics

  • decide on syntax
  • potato: add syntax to parser

• define operator set

  • == / ===
  • <=>
  • etc

• finish constants

• they've got scope issues -- private constants aren't helpful

• they are not lookupable from subclasses

• issues:

• mirah/mirah#277

• better boxing

• issues:

• mirah/mirah#266

Pie in the sky

• macro definable intrinsics?
• it'd be cool if you could write a macro that drops ASM
• goto?