TODO.md

TODO

• add tests
• extract some function to modules
• check memory leaks via lldb
• Add the operator ^, which raises one number to another. For example ^ 4 2 is 16
• Add the function min, which returns the smallest number. For example min 1 5 3 is 1
• Add the function max, which returns the biggest number. For example max 1 5 3 is 5
• Extend parsing and evaluation to support decimal types using a double field.
• Add a builtin function cons that takes a value and a Q-Expression and appends it to the front.
• Add a builtin function len that returns the number of elements in a Q-Expression.
• Add a builtin function init that returns all of a Q-Expression except the final element.
• Write a function for printing out all the named values in an environment.
• Add a specific boolean type to the language with the builtin variables true and false
• Define in Lisp logical operator functions such as or, and and not
• Adapt the builtin function join to work on strings.
• Adapt the builtin function head to work on strings.
• Adapt the builtin function tail to work on strings.
• Create a builtin function read that reads in and converts a string to a Q-expression.
• Create a builtin function show that can print the contents of strings as it is (unescaped).
• Create a special value ok to return instead of empty expressions ().
• Add functions to wrap all of C's file handling functions such as fopen and fgets.
• Add Lispy standard library
• Write some example programs using your standard library, for users to learn from.
• Add User Defined Types (aka struct in C)
• Add list literal [1 2 3] equals list 1 2 3
• Add operating system interaction. Wrappers for fread, fwrite, fgetc etc.
• Variable Hashtable
• Pool allocation
• Garbage Collection
• Tail Call Optimisation
• Lexical Scoping
• Static Typing
• replace mpc with hand rolled parser