[Coldstuff] More suggestions

[xmath]

Awaiting further comments on waifs.. I have more suggestions:

1. [Genesis] A default method handler: so, if a method call is done 
and the method can't be found, object.handle_method_call('method, 
@args) is called.

2. [Genesis] Why isn't there a way to do bitwise operations (and, or, 
xor, not). Doing bitwise and is sometimes possible with %, and doing 
bitwise not is possible by doing (1-value) but it's not as nice..

3. [Genesis] Support exponentiation of integers:
INT pow(INT x, INT y) and optionally FLOAT pow(FLOAT x, INT y)
I have fairly efficient implementations for these. (note that the 
FLOAT-INT pow isn't really necessary as you can use FLOAT-FLOAT pow 
for that, however INT-INT pow is a really different case.

4. [Genesis] It's a bit annoying that to convert a negative integer 
to a negative objnum, I have to do: fromliteral("#" + tostr(num)) 
because toobjnum doesn't work in that case. Maybe add an optional 
argument to toobjnum, "allow-negative" ?

5. [Genesis] Where is tofrob? To create a frob from variable 
parameters, I have to do:  frob = fromliteral("<" + toliteral(object) 
+ ", " + toliteral(data) + ", " + toliteral(handler) + ">")   and 
that's pretty disgusting

6. [Genesis] Why does objnum() exist? Why not do toint(this()) instead?

7. [ColdCore] Add some mechanism to $root to associate custom 
meta-data with objects, such as custom flags. (yes, I have an 
application in mind, 'remote to indicate the method may be called by 
an RPC)

8. [ColdCore] There should be some way for programmers to get a list 
of tasks that are under their controls. So, a programmer-level @tasks 
and @kill

Well, that's it for now I think.. :-)

  - xmath