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diff --git a/contrib/awk/FUTURES b/contrib/awk/FUTURES deleted file mode 100644 index b2f7575..0000000 --- a/contrib/awk/FUTURES +++ /dev/null @@ -1,85 +0,0 @@ -This file lists future projects and enhancements for gawk. Items are listed -in roughly the order they will be done for a given release. This file is -mainly for use by the developers to help keep themselves on track, please -don't bug us too much about schedules or what all this really means. - -With the 3.0 release, we are acknowledging that awk is not PERL, nor should -it become PERL. (To paraphrase Dennis Ritchie, "If you want PERL, you -know where to get it.") - -The focus on the future is thus narrowed to performance and functional -enhancements, with only minor plans for significant new features. - -(OK, so 3.1 had a bad case of feature-itis. I think I'm mostly over it -now, though. :-) - -In 3.1 -====== - DONE: A PROCINFO array to replace /dev/pid, /dev/user, et al. - - DONE: Add `abort' statement a la Thompson awk. - - DONE: Provide awk profiling. - - DONE: Integrate GNU NLS support. - - DONE: Bring out hooks for NLS support into gawk itself. - - DONE: Do a reference card. - - DONE: Switch to full ANSI C and use ansi2kr. - - Additional manual features: - DONE: Document NLS support - -For 3.2 -======= - Move the loadable modules interface to libtool. - - Redo the loadable modules interface from the awk level. - - Rework management of array index storage. - - A RECLEN variable for fixed-length record input. PROCINFO["RS"] - would be "RS" or "RECLEN" depending upon what's in use. - - DBM storage of awk arrays. Try to allow multiple dbm packages. - - Look at ISO C 99 printf features. - - Add %'d for putting in commas in formatting? - - Consider integrating Fred Fish's DBUG library into gawk. - - Consider removing use of and/or need for the protos.h file. - - Additional manual features: - ? Add exercises - Document use of dbm arrays - ? Add an error messages section to the manual - -For 3.3 -======= - Use a new or improved dfa and/or regex library. - - ? Have strftime() pay attention to the value of ENVIRON["TZ"] - - Add a lint check if the return value of a function is used but - the function did not supply a value. - - Additional manual features: - ? A section on where gawk is bounded - regex - i/o - sun fp conversions - -For 3.4 -======= - Do an optimization pass over parse tree? - - Make awk '/foo/' files... run at egrep speeds (how?) - -For 4.x: -======== - -Provide awk debugging. |
