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Roadmap

• Test build procedure with setup.py
• Implement the local bok.config with ConfigParser
• Include a more complete interface to numpy
• Calling methods and attributes on python objects
• More robust error handling with tracebacks
• Interactive stepping debugger
• Tests, either with pytest or hypothesis
• Command line interface for running scripts $ bok foo.bok
• Fix the import system
  • Diamond problem for multiple imports to the same module
  • Recursive/circular imports to the same module
• Documentation
  • Complete docstrings for builtin functions
  • Manual and reference documentation with sphinx
• Interactive REPL improvements
  • Command shortcuts with the F-keys (dump stack, repeat macro, help-browser, etc)
  • Define macros like IPython to save typing
  • Completion for sub-words, e.g. foo.b -> foo.bar
  • Interactive help-browser, like an info page for the docs