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+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.
+
+For 2.16
+========
+David:
+	Move to autoconf-based configure system.
+
+	Allow RS to be a regexp.
+
+	RT variable to hold text of record terminator
+
+	RECLEN variable for fixed length records
+
+	Feedback alloca.s changes to FSF
+
+	Extensible hashing in memory of awk arrays
+
+	Split() with null string as third arg to split up strings
+
+	Analogously, setting FS="" would split the input record into individual
+	characters.
+
+Arnold:
+	Generalize IGNORECASE
+		any value makes it work, not just numeric non-zero
+		make it apply to *all* string comparisons
+
+	Fix FILENAME to have an initial value of "", not "-"
+
+	Clean up code by isolating system-specific functions in separate files.
+
+	Undertake significant directory reorganization.
+
+	Extensive manual cleanup:
+		Use of texinfo 2.0 features
+		Lots more examples
+		Document all of the above.
+
+In 2.17
+=======
+David:
+
+	Incorporate newer dfa.c and regex.c (go to POSIX regexps)
+
+	Make regex + dfa less dependant on gawk header file includes
+
+	General sub functions:
+		edit(line, pat, sub) and gedit(line, pat, sub)
+	that return the substituted strings and allow \1 etc. in the sub string.
+
+Arnold:
+	DBM storage of awk arrays. Try to allow multiple dbm packages
+
+	? Have strftime() pay attention to the value of ENVIRON["TZ"]
+
+	Additional manual features:
+		Document posix regexps
+		Document use of dbm arrays
+		? Add an error messages section to the manual
+		? A section on where gawk is bounded
+			regex
+			i/o
+			sun fp conversions
+
+For 2.18
+========
+
+Arnold:
+	Add chdir and stat built-in functions.
+
+	Add function pointers as valid variable types.
+
+	Add an `ftw' built-in function that takes a function pointer.
+
+David:
+
+	Do an optimization pass over parse tree?
+
+For 2.19 or later:
+==================
+Add variables similar to C's __FILE__ and __LINE__ for better diagnostics
+from within awk programs.
+
+Add an explicit concatenation operator and assignment version.
+
+? Add a switch statement
+
+Add the ability to seek on an open file and retrieve the current file position.
+
+Add lint checking everywhere, including check for use of builtin vars.
+only in new awk.
+
+"restart" keyword
+
+Add |&
+
+Make 	awk '/foo/' files...	run at egrep speeds
+
+Do a reference card
+
+Allow OFMT to be other than a floating point format.
+
+Allow redefining of builtin functions?
+
+Make it faster and smaller.
+
+For 3.x:
+========
+
+Create a gawk compiler?
+
+Create a gawk-to-C translator? (or C++??)
+
+Provide awk profiling and debugging.
+
+
+