David Nichols

to provide a more user-friendly text-based interface to querying data streams the DSQL strings should be used to generate API calls to filter / query data in data provider streams

add native CPU support for ARM CPUs + NDK support

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atomic operations + stack guard

db modules should return hashes and lists with subtype auto

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they are returned untyped lists and hashes which enforces type stripping when the values are used as the basis for a new list or hash

module-astparser: add support for intellisense for builtin standard library

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we need to add support for intellisense for the built-in functionality of Qore; this is a major feature missing from the astparser module currently. Let's discuss how to do this...

%endif without a newline at the end of a file fails to parse

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``` unhandled QORE System exception thrown in TID 1 at 2018-04-10 05:49:05.816907 Tue +02:00 (CEST) on line -1 PARSE-EXCEPTION: 1 conditional block left open at end of file ```

``` DUPLICATE-LOCAL-VARIABLE: local variable 'parse_result' was already declared in this lexical scope at ./misc/has_effect.qtest:32 QUnit Test "HasEffectTest" v1.0 warning encountered at ./vars/string.qtest:302 RETURN-VALUE-IGNORED: call to method ::equalPartialPath() does not have...

ex: ``` david@meteor:~/src/Qorus/git/qorus/test/java$ java -cp /Users/david/src/Qorus/test/jar/qorus-client.jar:/Users/david/src/Qorus/test/jar/qorus-test.jar:/Users/david/src/Qorus/test/jar/qore-jni.jar:. -Djava.library.path=/usr/local/lib TestJob Exception in thread "main" org.qore.jni.QoreExceptionWrapper: RUNTIME-CAST-ERROR: cannot cast from type 'nothing' to 'list' at org.qore.jni.QoreJavaApi.newObjectSave0(Native Method) at org.qore.jni.QoreJavaApi.newObjectSave(QoreJavaApi.java:178) at com.qoretechnologies.qorus.test.QorusJobTest.(QorusJobTest.java:37) at TestJob.main(TestJob.java:11)...

migrate Qore to use C++ exceptions rather than ExceptionSink

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to improve the maintainability and clarity of the code; using c++ exceptions will result in more concise code as well

preformatted log messages cannot be submitted to Loggers

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currently all Logger messages are formatted after submission which makes *printf-style format characters disappear - ex: a literal logging string like `%s %y %d` will be logged as ` null...