Version 6 of TclOO WishList and Work Roster

DKF: Not everything that I want in TclOO is yet there. This is a page to collect those ideas and track them until they're implemented and deployed in reality.

Warning! What TclOO won't do is massively increase in scope. Its focus will necessarily remain on being small, stable, fast, well-engineered, tested and documented. Putting any old thing in here may well just result in those suggestions getting deleted. You are supposed to build on top of TclOO for most things.

Wish List

The order here is arbitrary.

Fundamental features:

submethods (to support Snit)
- Not yet TIPped.
  - Difficulty estimated to be fairly high; introspection is troublesome…
slots (to support XOTcl)
- See TIP#279 for background ideas. [L1 ]
  - Difficulty estimated to be fairly low
better support for self-like object management
- - Difficulty not yet studied
garbage collection
- Not very hard to implement, but doesn't follow Tcl's basic semantic model so nasty (but can use techniques like tcom and tclblend do...)

Class library:

megawidget system
- Base on Megawidgets with TclOO? Should be (nearly?) pure Tcl.
- Part of the 8.6 tk_getOpenFile for Unix/X11 is currently done as a TclOO-based megawidget, which simplified quite a lot of code.
Support for chan create and chan push
- Base on TclOO Channels? Should be pure Tcl.
Rework zlib stream stuff as TclOO class
- Requires C skills.
TDBC (though this is really already done)
Improvements to tcllib
- Should be pure Tcl.

Work Roster

[to be done]