Feature Requests

Add features or libraries you would like to see implemented:

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Libraries

Regular Expressions - Something like CL-PPCRE (http://cliki.net/cl-ppcre). The parser is probably going to be generated by SlaCC - Brian Rice
Any and all good data structure types. Some specific examples: run-arrays, segmented arrays (flattened arrays-of-arrays), generic graph support. - Brian Rice
A storage framework similar to Magma (http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2665)
XML Handling. - Brian Rice
Eventually, a SqueakMap (http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/SqueakMap) style of agnostic package catalog system. - Brian Rice
A build system, suitable for controlling the various system-construction pieces of Slate at a portable abstract level of detail that Make will not allow. Rake (http://rake.rubyforge.org/) seems like a good source to port build-style logic from, even if it is too dead-environment-oriented. - Brian Rice

OS-level threading. - Brian Rice
Software Transactional Memory for thread synchronization (LtU article (http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/view/1151), Tim Harris' homepage (http://research.microsoft.com/~tharris), STM implementation in C# (http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/default.aspx))
A more general, usable concurrency mechanism, perhaps inspired by Erlang (http://www.erlang.org/), Fair Threads (http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/rp/FairThreads/html/FairThreads-3.html), The Join Calculus (http://join.inria.fr/), etc. - Jeff Cutsinger
An emacs-style (http://www.finseth.com/~fin/craft/) editing engine. - Brian Rice
The implementation techniques used to implement Dylan called partial dispatch (http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrb/Projects/partial-dispatch.htm). - Brian Rice
AMD64 support. - Bill Sun

Integration of testing and type-checking into one framework. (eg using results from projects like Extended Static Checking (http://research.compaq.com/SRC/esc/) with its theorem prover and annotation system) - Brian Rice

I think that a Vim "indent" file would be much welcome. Add one, please. We don't know how to make one. - Brian Rice
A profiler. - Bill Sun