stackto

To-do list for StackTo

In no particular order.

• (done) spaces in strings
• (done) expressions directly in output
• (done) negative numbers
• (done) add min and max operators
• (done) add sum keyword for lists
• (done) add prod keyword for lists
• (done) test remaining untested operators
• (done) random library/function
• (done) “type” keyword to get type of a item in an expression
• (done) “split” string operator
• (done) run code from directory/path not just cwd
• (done) represent program as flowchart (parsed statements)
• (done) brainstorm language name - “stackto”/”StackTo” (stack + goto)
• (done) brainstorm file extension - “.stackto”
• (done) syntax highlighter (/formatter)
• (done) revised bnf
• use argparse for impl.py and generate_flowchart.py
• (done) figure out something better than COLON to replace colon with port issue for graphviz
• (done) add special “inputnum” operator to autocast user input to number
• (done) add list set nth trinary operator e.g. “$list index x setnth”
• add line numbers to error output
• fix flowchart generator to use node labels and remove possible duplicate node name issues
• port syntax highlighter to js so that it can be run on a website
• add list “contains” binary operator
• add string formatting with %s or similar
• fix code formatter to allow empty lines for readability
• academic writeup of syntax, semantics
• display code output underneath highlighted syntax output from syntax highlighter (capture stdout)
• actual jupyter-like notebook support
• “set” datatype
• record/dict datatype
• dark theme css for syntax highlighting
• ide support (lsp)
• data structure libraries or keywords
• graphviz integration
• optimize code
• write wrapper to mock output for batch testing files
• input from within expressions (?)
• provide prompt functionality for input, e.g. “inputprompt”
• standard library/functions (?)
• file i/o library/functionality
• gui library
• cli repl
• csv lib
• function namespaces (e.g., List.nth, List.splat…) (?)
• allow definition of custom stack operators
• js interpreter and online repl
• port to c or llvm or java
• regex lib
• web/requests library
• documentation website
• language logo
• naming convention for markers based on function

Rejected ideas

• (rejected) fix comment difficulty by removing comments before splitting on semicolons
• (rejected) add multiline comments - brainstorm a delimiter