Misc Issues/Possible Features

[ghost]

I have found a lot of issues and possible features that are probably too small to have their own page so I will put them here.

Bugs:

• The way method calls are parsed is a little too complex and is prone to errors (ex. a = 5, b (a) :.)
• Sometimes potion treats numbers as int when they should be treated as long.

Features:

• Dynamic loader to load objective-c libraries and use the classes as potion classes.
• Optional arguments
• Errors
• potion_get_caller() function to get a method's caller.

[rurban]

Good ideas. Maybe we need extra tickets as we implement them.

Optional args without defaults are encoded as | (default value: nil).
Defaults for those are already implemented in my perl11/p2 branch and will be backported.
<name> = <type> := <value> or just <name> := <value> taking the type from the value.

get_caller introspection was also requested from others.

The method parser is super simplistic and error prone, sure.
I'm trying to improve that in my perl11/expr branch, but it's not easy.

long as int should be easily fixable, good catch.

[rurban]

Optional arguments are now in.