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Also see [[TODO]].

General

• start an RFC process to work out changes and additions?

Various

• "function signatures", or rather runtime function argument type checks, using type predicate functions: does Method::Signatures need to be modified to support this? (Or should Function::Parameters be used instead?)

• reimplement parts in C (Pair, perhaps Promise?) to save some space and CPU (but then, that prevents serialization [unless more work is done]; also, to really optimize, want a custom/fake SV type that includes the pair fields directly?)

• add set API, make FP::HashSet and OO based port.

• a variant of Scalar::Util's weaken that takes a value to be put into the spot that held a reference when it is deleted, so that the user can see something more useful like an object that carries a message "weakened by stream_ref" (perhaps including caller location) or some such instead of undef. (Even after changing the interpreter to do lexical lifetime analysis, such values can be seen via debugger infrastructure (stack locations). But then, instead of weaken simple assignments can be used.)

• Byte code optimizer that automatically turns function calls in tail position into gotos, if some 'TCO' pragma is in effect

• Provide a 'recursive let' form that includes weakening or application of the fix point combinator, like:

    my rec ($foo,$bar) =
        sub { $bar->() },
        sub { $foo->() };
  

• change FP::Struct into a Moose extension? Is Moose ok to have as a hard dependency? (Because why are there all these Moose alternatives like Moo?)

  Are MooseX::Locked, MooseX::MultiMethods good?

  What about the nice-and-simple predicate approach? Extend that to make multimethod dispatch still fast? Would that then (really?) be the same as Moose::Util::TypeConstraints?

• add functional vector implementation with good computational complexity (see paper from which Clojure implemented theirs), perhaps base FP::PureArray on it, implement functional hashmap on it, implement set with it. (There are implementations on JavaScript too, already. Are there any in C?)

• currying, pattern matching, multimethods, ...: see if existing modules can be used. Experiment, embrace, extend...

• serialisation of closures, once lexical analysis is present, or/and via some declaration of which variables in which order should be captured.

Questions

(For RFC process?)

• Should subtrees of modules (in the namespace hiearchy) be disallowed from loading the tree parent? Example: FP::Repl implements the repl, and uses for example FP::Repl::Stack and FP::Repl::corefuncs. But the latter do not themselves use or require FP::Repl. OTOH, FP::Repl::WithRepl does that--it is a 'wrapper'. The only reason this module is currently below the FP::Repl namespace is that it's "related". But perhaps that's a bad justification.

• Should various of the more central modules be coalesced into a FP::Core module (like clojure/core or Haskell's Prelude)? (These tend to be disappointing over time... so perhaps not? There's the re-export feature of the FunctionalPerl module, maybe just use :core there and maintain that to be equivalent. Does that make the situation any different?)

Website

• improve website layout

• when linking to an anchor (like todo.xhtml#Names) is there a way (without javascript) to make the linked-to item (section header) appear high-lighted or something (if the end of the page isn't reached, then it's visually clear which item is meant, but items towards the end of the page don't have that luxury)