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- I would like to do the following things in due course (not necessarily in
- this order)...
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- * I would like REXX/imc to run on Sys V systems, as well as SunOS and
- (hopefully) BSD ones. NB I will need some help because I only have
- access to SunOS and therefore cannot test on other systems.
- * REXX/imc needs a completely new symbol table algorithm to speed it up.
- * eliminate most or all of the BUGS mentioned in rexx.ref
- * eliminate most or all of the BUGS not mentioned in rexx.ref ;-)
- * add "options STANDARD" which will disallow all the local extensions
- * solve discrepancy between upper/lower case in external function names
- * Add support for environments other than COMMAND and UNIX
- * Expand the builtin shell to do some interesting things, e.g. filename
- expansion and I/O redirection
- * Improve the documentation
- * Some extra invocation options, for example...
- -e environ (to change the default environment - eg in a Rexx application)
- * Allow programs to be preprocessed for later execution
- * Allow programs to be loaded for repeated execution
- * Fix the conversion functions (e.g. c2d) to work with large numbers
- * Fix the ** operator to work with large numbers on the RHS
- * Decide whether "foo/* comment */bar" equals "foo bar" or "foo||bar"
- * Correct the tracing (i.e., move the pauses to after execution and add "=",
- "trace number" and "trace -number" commands).
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- Things that might be nice (but won't get done...)
- * Support for national languages
- * Impose the constraint on the use of PROCEDURE mandated by ANSI
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