TODO List and Ideas

This is where we hold a TODO list. We'll try to keep this as much organized as we can...

TODO

• SAPI layer
• Take a look at asmjit for a native JIT support
• Fix PkgManager error handling
• Write a manpage for clever interpreter
• Implement switch-case control flow
• Implement include of clever file
• Implement for loop
• Implement iterators
• Improve current modules

Ideas

Functions and Callable interface

Functions and Callable

Clever functions, as everything that you can put in a variable, are objects. All functions implement the Callable interface under the hood.

The interface Callable is an internal interface but it can be described as:

iface Callable {
    public operator()(...args);
}

Utilities

bind(func)

bind(func, ...args) is a function which returns a Callable. Performing a function call in an object returned by bind(), produces the same behavior of calling func(..args):

var min8 = bind(min, 8); // min(x, y) returns x if x <= y is true, y otherwise

print(min8(9)); // 8
print(min8(1)); // 1

heuripedes: this is also known as currying. see also partial application