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Express most built-ins as macros

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We're happy when most built-in functions can be expressed as "pure 007", as opposed to extranatural substrate (currently Perl 6, in general whatever). There's a tendency to explain as many...

masak

Somewhat connected to #385, I guess. I just stumbled over [the Mozilla developer guide (introduction)](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Introduction). It's inspiring. If we make ours half as inspiring as that, we're in a good...

masak

We don't have too many things on our wishlist describing changes to the compilation process itself, so here's one: importing a module to forbid potentially infinite loops and recursion: ```...

masak

Implement safe navigation/null-coalescing operator

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Code like this: my bossName; if employee != None { if employee.boss != None { bossName = employee.boss.name; } else { bossName = None; } } else { bossName =...

masak

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Implement CHECK blocks

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We already have the concept of `CHECK` time in 007, so it makes sense to have `CHECK` blocks too.

masak

Add a "style guide" to the documentation

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Kind of [PEP 8](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/)-ish or [perlstyle](https://perldoc.perl.org/perlstyle.html)-oid. Needless to say, this would go really well together with the idea of a [prettier](https://prettier.io/)-style tool, already outlined in https://github.com/masak/007/issues/14#issuecomment-149211379.

masak

Get rid of .prefix and .suffix, and implement .startsWith and .endsWith instead

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Basically those two are what one tends to want to reach for when working with strings (at least until we have regex matching in the language). The issue that introduced...

masak

In the fullness of time we probably want many of the phasers of Perl 6, but this one seems like easy pickings.

masak