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==Should go ahead and do==
==Should go ahead and do==
===Simple===
===Simple===
* [[Loop/Break]]
* [[Eval]] (except for the "how to bind a variable" bit but we already lost on that in [[Eval in environment]])
* [[Eval]] (except for the "how to bind a variable" bit but we already lost on that in [[Eval in environment]])
* [[Dynamic variable names]] (ditto)
* [[Optional parameters]]
* [[Optional parameters]]
* [[Testing a Function]]
* [[Loop/Nested]]
* [[Loop/Nested]]
* [[Median]]
* [[Median]]
* [[Mode]]


===Problems===
===Problems===
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* [[Regular expression matching]] (need agreement on regexp substitution and regexp search-as-opposed-to-match)
* [[Regular expression matching]] (need agreement on regexp substitution and regexp search-as-opposed-to-match)
* [[Sort stability]] (Need to find/write the documentation on this)
* [[Sort stability]] (Need to find/write the documentation on this)
* [[Dynamic variable names]] (Once environment-<code>with</code> is builtin, show using it together with <code>interp.setTopScope</code>)


==Special cases==
==Special cases==

Revision as of 03:31, 17 June 2009

This is User:Kevin Reid's classification of Tasks not implemented in E, or just poorly done in E, by what kind of problem they are, or what kind of library/language work should come first.

As of 16:05, 16 June 2009. When updating this list, consult the diffs since then for what to add/remove.

Should go ahead and do

Simple

Problems

Data structures

Algorithmic

Type algebra/staticness

Object-oriented/inheritance

Concurrency

  • Rendezvous (Hard to define what this means in E. Intervat perhaps? Is currently marked omit.)

Funky control flow

Probably messy

GUI

Reflective

Graphics

Numerics

Large projects

Argue with

Contortions

Needs a ... to be done well

Reflection toolkit

User-defined exceptions

Parser library

Iter/accum/stream tools

Image type

Matrix type

Complex type

Rational type

Calendar

Stream IO

Console input

Sockets

Operating system interfaces

FFI

Database

Protocol/language implementations

Miscellaneous

Special cases

To review

Insert new tasks here.