Planned features

[avborup]

A tracking issue for planned features of Linefeed.

• Everything is an expression
• Lazy keyword
  • E.g. lazy foo = 1 + 2 is not evaluated until first use
• (Linear-algebraic) vectors
• By-default big integers (as in Python, Perl, and Ruby)
• Good I/O tooling
  • Null file handle (as in Perl's null file handle)
  • Regex support
• Trait-based
  • Dictionaries with any key, for example
  • Operators: addition for strings, numbers, vectors etc

... and more

And some "might be fun but might not happen" features:

• Make a JIT compiler that uses LLVM
• Type inference
• Linear algebra: matrix multiplication, determinants, inverse

Discarded features

• Nullish coalescing operator. Can be done with the or operation most of the time. Abandoned for now.
• Complex numbers. Add linear-algebraic vectors instead with useful methods. In Python, complex numbers were used as a stand-in for vectors 99% of the time (in my case).