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Additions to "My Todo's".

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@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ argument to @@encode() and get a type string like the selector types.
@item GNU Notification registration classes, notification classes.
@item GNU Exception classes.
@item Write more/better random number generators. Make them conform to
the protocol <RandomGenerating>. See RNGAdditiveCongruential.
@ -53,7 +55,7 @@ also?
sort of way that Smalltalk does. Talk to me. mccallum@@gnu.ai.mit.edu.
@item See
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/mccallum/libobjects/volunteers-gnustep for
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/mccallum/libobjects/volunteers.html for
a list of the claimed and unclaimed GNUStep Foundation classes.
@end itemize
@ -73,21 +75,22 @@ malloced buffers should autorelease those buffers, (like readFormat:).
@item Remove (Stream*) types on args.
@item Many code fixes and cleanups, indicated with @samp{xxx} in the source.
@item Many code fixes and cleanups, indicated with @samp{xxx} in the
source.
@item Make a GNU analogue to NSException.
@item In remote object messaging, send exceptions back to the requestor.
I'm waiting for gcc 2.7 exceptions.
@item Separate Coder's "-..Simple.." methods into another class.
@item Add Coding methods to all the other collection classes.
@item
Once we have SmallInt and SmallFloat classes, overhaul the collection
heirarchy to get rid of the (elt) stuff. Probably will get rid of
function pointer passing too.
@item
Possibly change @code{-(int)compare:anObject} for Collection. How
should non-Indexed collections be ordered?
function pointer passing and nested functions too.
@item
Think about restructuring the Collection heirarchy. We need an abstract
@ -96,6 +99,10 @@ class for collections that are ordered, but whose order is fixed by the
of the classes. The implementation of this stuff is crying out for
multiple inheritance or protocols-with-implementation!
@item
Possibly change @code{-(int)compare:anObject} for Collection. How
should non-Indexed collections be ordered?
@item
Finish HashTable.m. Implement freeKeys:values: (What is this supposed
to do anyway?). Handle archiving of atom string, "%", keys.
@ -103,13 +110,6 @@ to do anyway?). Handle archiving of atom string, "%", keys.
@item
Finish Time.m. Many methods are not yet implemented.
@item
Write a good hash function for floats and doubles.
@c This from
@c libg++.texi: @code{unsigned int foldhash(double x);} a hash function for
@c doubles that exclusive-or's the first and second words of x, returning
@c the result as an integer.
@item
Many implementations could be made more efficient. Libobjects hasn't
been efficiency tuned at all. Overridding more methods in certain
@ -283,17 +283,6 @@ Currently you have to remove, change, add, for some classes.
@c -------------------------------------------------------------------
@c @section Questions leftover from last release
@item
Opinions on the error reporting scheme? See also
@samp{checks/test05.m}. This error reporting scheme will most likely
change completely as soon as gcc gets exception handling.
@item
Should I include _comparison_function as an instance variable of
Collection? Putting it back in could make some things more efficient,
but several classes don't have configurable comparisonFunction's
(i.e. String, LinkedList, BinaryTree, RBTree), so they don't need it.
@item
I've been told that GNU filenames should be 14 chars or less. I
don't want to abbreviate my classnames, but I think using .h