OpenEuphoria

Re: New features besides tasking

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Feb 18, 2006
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Jason Gade wrote:
> So, Rob. Are there any other new features or improvements that you are working
> that you would like to share with us? Besides the great new tasking feature?
> 
> Maybe some new control structures like continue or case? Or an exception
> handling
> mechanism? A built-in string type? Any changes to the include mechanism
> besides
> what has already been discussed? A version-checking statement?
> 
> What about the next version after this? You haven't updated the new
> features/bug
> page in awhile.
> 
> Not to advocate anything in particular, I was just wondering and I notice that
> the list has been pretty dead the last couple of days.
> 
> You had suggested adding the bfind() function to the ESL. Seeing the (lack of)
> progress of ESL and the possible utility of the function, could it be added
> to sort.e or some other appropriate place?

I think the first thing I need is a way to organize all these
feature requests, so I don't lose track of them, and so we 
don't keep starting up the same discussion at the beginning 
every few months.

I posted a message on the Open Watcom forum about the
"flipping to full-screen" problem. No response yet.

I spent a great deal of time yesterday studying the
machine code that Watcom (10.6) is giving me in the inner
part of the interpreter. I found a couple of trivial
changes I could make in the C code that greatly
improved the machine code generated across many ops. 
I'm not sure how much of this is an improvement over 2.5 official,
versus how much just restores some speed that was 
lost since then. I'm going to continue working on that 
for a while before looking at new features.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com