1.4.0

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@520 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

ToDo

@@ -1,8 +1,17 @@
 Language Spec.
 
+* compile time string concatenation, "hello" "world" => "helloworld"
+* ../... outside condition invokes operator method too.
+* %w(a\ b\ c abc) => ["a b c", "abc"]
 * package or access control for global variables
-* named arguments like foo(nation:="german").
-* multiple return values, yield values.  maybe imcompatible
+* class variable (prefix?)
+* named arguments like foo(nation:="german") or foo(nation: "german").
+* method to retrieve argument information (need new C API)
+* multiple return values, yield values.  maybe incompatible ???
+* cascading method invocation ???
+* def Class#method .. end ??
+* class Foo::Bar<Baz .. end, module Boo::Bar .. end
+* def Foo::Bar::baz() .. end ??
 
 Hacking Interpreter
 
@@ -12,17 +21,28 @@ Hacking Interpreter
 * remove rb_eval() recursions
 * syntax tree -> bytecode ???
 * scrambled script, or script filter
-* regular expression bug /(?:\s+\d+){2}/  URGENT!!
+* setuid ruby
+
+Standard Libraries
+
+* Struct::new([name,]member,...) ??
+* String#scanf(?)
+* Object#fmt(?)
+* Time::strptime
+* Integer[num], Float[num];  Fixnum[num]?
+* method to detect non-number trailer for to_i/to_f.
+* Stream or Port, abstract superclass of IO ?
+* String#{pred,prev}, String#downto
+* optional stepsize argument for succ()
 
 Extension Libraries
 
-* mod_ruby, FastCGI ruby
-* InterBase module
+* FastCGI ruby
 * ptk.rb pTk wrapper that is compatible to tk.rb
 
 Ruby Libraries
 
-* CGI.rb
+* net/pop.rb net/smtp.rb
 * httplib.rb, urllib.rb, nttplib.rb, etc.
 * format like perl's
 
@@ -33,5 +53,4 @@ Tools
 
 Misc
 
-* translate README.EXT fully into English
 * publish Ruby books