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Re: Garbage Collection (Real Features)

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Jun 29, 2005
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On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:54:56 -0700, Vincent <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
wrote:

>Here are some "REAL" feature ideas: 
Needless to say, I cannot resist categorising them:
>
These need full design & consultation: [hurrumpgh? ]
>* C++ style local & global namespaces 
>* Current namespace system improvement (Matt's idea) 

My top wishes:
>* Specific warning ignores (without warning xxxxx,xxx,...) 
>* Forward-referencing of routines 
>* Interpreter version routine 
>* The use of '=' in conditional statements 

Plus:
include file enhancements, specifically the ability to install eg
win32lib +20 in a subdirectory without having to edit win32lib.ew,
along with the automatic resolution of duplicate globals, when the
intent is blatantly obvious, from include &/or directory structure.

Would be nice:
>* 'Constant' declaration to be scoped at routine-level 
>* Multiple items to be on the left hand side of an assignment 

I might find use for:
>* Built-In absolute value routine 
>* Code blocks within routines with their own scope 
>* Assignment on declaration 
>* Named loops and blocks 
>* Pass parameters by reference
>* Specify non-contiguous elements in slices 
>* Specify slice elements via a sequence 
>* Specify sequence indexing and slicing on function calls 
>* Swap elements built-in routine 
>* Insert Elements built-in routine 
>* Delete Elements built-in routine 
>* Block commenting 
>* Built-In routine to delete and insert elements into a sequence 
>* Extract Elements Expression 
>* Case/Switch Statement 
>* Memory mapped data (C structures/unions) 

I abstain:
>* Duplicated Constant Declarations 
>* Assignment as an Expression 
>* Limited GOTO construct 

I vote against:
>* 'Continue' Interation' keyword 
>* 'Repeat Current Iteration' keyword 
>* Desequencing operator 
>* Return value from a function can be be ignored 
>* Expression evaluation: eval() 
>* Run-time metadata access for programmers 
>* Dynamic variable routines 
>* Macros 

I vote strongly against:
>* Forward referencing of data (variables and constants) 
>* 32 bit integers 
>* 32 bit pointers 
>* Char datatype 
>* String datatype 
>* Fixed length vectors (arrays) 
>* Data type specifier of vector declarations 
>* Heterogenous fixed-length vectors (structures) 
>* Display format specified at declaration time 
>* Additional metadata for variables 

Regards,
Pete