NewFeatures.md

Feature Ideas

This file lists some feature ideas for the language and the compiler.

Compiler:

1. Add custom error handling. (Specifically, add an override of visitErrorNode in FunctionControlPathAnalyzer and something similar in StaticChecker).
2. Improve logging format (something like gcc would be good).
3. Make installation and usage easier.

Upcoming features:

1. Probabilistic execution of statements, and then blocks (idk operator with probability).
2. Compilation of all possible pathways. (idk operator with no probability).

Features that may be added later:

1. An asap operator for functions that will call the function as soon as possible. This function can be called again later on too of course. For example:

   let asap doThis() {
       // do something here
   }
   

   The above is equivalent to doing this:

   let doThis() {
       // do something here
   }
   () -> doThis.
   

2. Add null check operator.

3. Add floating point numbers.

4. Add hexadecimal numbers.

5. Add a for loop (and other kinds of loops).

6. Add break and continue statements.

7. Add the conditional ternary operator.

8. Add something like a switch statement.

9. Exception handling?

10. Lambdas would be so good.

11. Import statements. Freaking required.

12. Deferred blocks would be quite cool. Shouldn't be too tough to implement too.

13. Escaped characters in strings.

14. Blocks that execute only with a random probability. Like:

       /* 40% chance of executing */
       with chance (40%) -> <identifier> {
          // if it happens, <identifier> is an int that has the random number generated 
       } else {
          // if it does not happen
       }
    

15. What if a function returns a value probabilistically? :-)