GameMonkeyScript/gmsrc/doc/ToDoList.txt

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GameMonkey Script TODO list

In no particular order unless otherwise specified.  No time 
frame for changes or features, so effectively a wish list.
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o Fix issue where reported error line is not exact.  Occurs due to instruction pointer increment before exception handling.
o Fix empty / commented out script from producing parse error. Work around: Add a ';' semicolon to end of source, or ignore known empty scripts.
o Change overide 'this' syntax from this:func() to func<this>() to support member chains eg. a.b.c<t>()
Part o Put ++, -- operators back, but perhaps don't let them be used in conditions for consistency.
  (pre inc/dec are back in, but post inc/dec should be added also.

o Make string hash table resize for efficiency in string intensive applications.
o Make compiler thread safe.  Probably by moving to Lemon parser and Flex++.
o Make user type Ids sharable between gmMachine instances so identical registration order is not required.

o Add exception handling like try / catch blocks.
o Possibly move code from gmThread into gmMachine.
o Possibly optimize byte code by moving to register stack machine.
o Possibly allow extra (eg. variable number of) parameters to be passes as a table to script functions.
o Optimize thread code to efficiently handle enormous numbers of threads.
o Expose more to the debugger.
o Eventually remove classic garbage collector, leaving only incremental collector.
o Option for unicode strings.
o Binding to allow user type creation and operator functions from within script.
o Possibly store the 'color' bit and 'persistent' bit flags for GCObjects in the lower, unused part of the list pointer.
o Possibly change the double linked list to a single XOR encoded link.  This CPU for memory trade may not be worthwhile.

Done
o Make 64bit compatible.
o Add 64bit MSVC GME build configs for testing and use