Allow | as a binary selector character when not used for headers.
Implement “&foo” in message sends as “&foo: True”. Implement creation of local variables for assignments. Implement bytes{1 2 3 4} to create literal ByteArrays. Implement words{foo bar baz} to tokenize a list of words. Implement p{/usr/lib/foo} to create literal Path objects. Implement q{} to create ##() literal/read-time arrays. Implement glob{foo?.*.c} to create Glob objects. Implement r{[a-z](.*)[ ]} to create regular expression matchers. Implement math{3 + 4 * 5} to apply the precedence library’s `math to it. Implement comment{} or why{} or doc{} for comments and reclaim double-quotes.
Extract ExtensibleMapping protocol.
Separate Dictionary from Set, inheriting from ExtensibleMapping. Implement OrderedDictionary. Eliminate overrideThis in favor of traits-style method requirements. Implement method definition as “signature := body”. Requires method header rewrite at macro-expansion time.
STARTED Implement “%” as a binary selector lexeme unless used as Eventually prefix. Implement mutator selector pattern of “foo:=” and sunset “foo:”. Externalize `setTo: rules into data structures. STARTED Implement Ruby === for includes:/select:/case-statement usage. With different assymetrical selector, e.g. isCaseOf:.
Root -> \=. Collection -> includes:, Block -> applyWith:. Regex -> matches:.
Implement \=:= as pattern-matching binding. Requires generation of ::= statements.
Requires destructuring of Patterns/Partials
Implement initial setting of a local to a literal as a static initialization. Requires some VM support to instantiate the context with the values.
Implement | as a special binary macro for chaining expressions and shell pipelines. Change block header syntax to [|( … ) body ]. Finish XTreams refactoring of base libraries. Mini-language for unit testing. Add DoubleFloat support to FFI. Implement file loading as parse-compile-then-execute and use/install the result object. Re-implement the bootstrap assembly in terms of these compiled file-methods. Implement an Eco-system style repository of modules that can be loaded per-caller. Rename files to mirror module name (very closely if not identically). Anatomy-style documentation tool based on the parser. Literate-style documentation facility based on the doctool. Implement online tutorials using doc tool Install Packages for various OS/distributions (pkg/) NOTE ExtensibleSequence’s removeFirst/removeFirst:/removeLast/removeLast: are just open-coded versions of first/first:/last/last: where the firstIndex or lastIndex are updated. Fix File’s size method (…).