Calc Todo Items: The following items should be addressed sometime in the short to medium term future, if not before the next release. Code contributions are welcome. Send patches to: calc-contrib at asthe dot com Calc bug reports, however, should send to: calc-bugs at asthe dot com [[ NOTE: Replace 'at' with @, 'dot' is with . and remove the spaces ]] [[ NOTE: The EMail address uses 'asthe' and the web site URL uses 'isthe' ]] See the BUGS file or try the calc command: help bugs See also the 'wishlist' help files for the calc enhancement wish list. =-= Very High priority items: * Consider using GNU autoconf / configure to build calc. * Internationalize calc by converting calc error messages and text strings (e.g., calc startup banner, show output, etc.) into calls to the GNU gettext internationalization facility. If somebody translated these strings into another language, setting $LANG would allow calc to produce error messages and text strings in that language. * Fix any 'Known bugs' as noted in the BUGS file or as displayed by 'calc help bugs'. =-= High priority items: * Verify, complete or fix the 'SEE ALSO' help file sections. * Verify, complete or fix the 'LINK LIBRARY' help file sections. * Verify, complete or fix the 'LIMITS' help file sections. * Verify, complete or fix the 'SYNOPSIS' and 'TYPES' help file sections. * Perform a code coverage analysis of the 'make check' action and improve the coverage (within reason) of the regress.cal suite. * Address, if possible and reasonable, any Calc Mis-features as noted in the BUGS file or as displayed by 'calc help bugs'. =-= Medium priority items: * Review and if needed, correct/update the help topics: topic description ----- ----------- intro introduction to calc overview overview of calc assoc using associations command top level commands define how to define functions environment how environment variables effect calc errorcodes calc generated error codes expression expression sequences file using files history command history interrupt how interrupts are handled list using lists obj user defined data types operator math, relational, logic and variable access ... statement flow control and declaration statements types builtin data types unexpected unexpected syntax/usage surprises for C ... variable variables and variable declarations libcalc using the arbitrary precision routines in ... bugs known bugs and mis-features wishlist wish list of future enhancements of calc * Complete the use of CONST where appropriate: CONST is beginning to be used with read-only tables and some function arguments. This allows certain compilers to better optimize the code as well as alerts one to when some value is being changed inappropriately. Use of CONST as in: int foo(CONST int curds, char *CONST whey) while legal C is not as useful because the caller is protected by the fact that args are passed by value. However, the in the following: int bar(CONST char *fizbin, CONST HALF *data) is useful because it calls the compiler that the string pointed at by 'fizbin' and the HALF array pointer at by 'data' should be treated as read-only. * It is overkill to have nearly everything wind up in libcalc.a. One should make available a the fundamental math operations on ZVALUE, NUMBER and perhaps COMPLEX (without all of the other stuff) in a separate library. * Clean the source code and document it better. * Add a builtin function to access the 64 bit FNV hash which is currently being used internally in seed.c. ## Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Landon Curt Noll ## ## Calc is open software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under ## the terms of the version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License ## as published by the Free Software Foundation. ## ## Calc is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ## ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY ## or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General ## Public License for more details. ## ## A copy of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License is ## distributed with calc under the filename COPYING-LGPL. You should have ## received a copy with calc; if not, write to Free Software Foundation, Inc. ## 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ## ## @(#) $Revision: 29.8 $ ## @(#) $Id: todo,v 29.8 2006/05/21 07:50:11 chongo Exp $ ## @(#) $Source: /usr/local/src/cmd/calc/help/RCS/todo,v $ ## ## Under source code control: 1999/10/20 07:42:55 ## File existed as early as: 1999 ## ## chongo /\oo/\ http://www.isthe.com/chongo/ ## Share and enjoy! :-) http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/