TODO.md

ICI TODO

This file documents a list of things that ICI needs. If you feel like doing one of them then by all means do so and if you are public minded donate your changes.

Vecs

Things to add:

• literal form -> [vec32f 1, 2.0, 3.134, ....]
• sized integer types, vec16s, vec8u, etc...
• I/O (printf?)

Remove reliance on C strings and adopt UTF-8 everywhere

So strings with NULs can be handled properly. There is a general problem all over the interpreter - we assume C strings. We pass ICI's string characters directly to C functions which can see a truncated string if the ICI string has an embedded NUL.

Modules

Native code modules should be collectable with unused modules being automatically unloaded. This requires the cfuncs and other objects that reference the contents of the module references some type of object which holds the module open. When the references are collected the module can be dlclose'd and unloaded.

Add esc() function.

What does it do? I forget. Perhaps outputs a "clean string" wit problematic characters escaped?

Make waitfor be able to wait on a set.

Mention the old form of smash in the documentation.

Document things defined in icicore.ici

Resurrect win stuff as an extension module and document.

Have a nicer way of convering an array to a set.

setof(array) ? It can be done via "call(set, array)" but that's a little idiosyncratic.

add a unique() function

It can be done in a single ICI expression,

keys(call(set, ary))

But we can do that a little more efficiently in native code.

Form a set from the array to discard duplicates, get the contents of the set in a vector via keys(). And if sorted key are desired you just call sort on the result of keys().

sort(keys(call(set, v)))

Add optional separator string to implode().

join() does this and replaces many uses of implode.

copy() of a string results in a non-atomic string

I don't think this is made clear enough in the documentation.