Future Changes

These changes, as of this writing, are not listed in any particular order of importance. They will be updated, reordered, etc. as time goes on

• Update the words that call ffi:type:select so that they are wrapped in Forth words that yield the right result rather than use constants as seen in the scriptwrap.sh and call_puts.fth example files.
  • There's some work on the way to take care of this. It hasn't been uploaded yet.
• Figure out why strings sometimes hang around in instead of being disappeared as they should. Possibly due to not clearing PAD or some other Forth buffer?
• Currently the only way to get shell input into an OspreyForth script is to wrap it in a shell script (see examples/scriptwrap.sh). Basically, a shell script takes the input arguments and writes them into an OspreyForth script. This needs to be changed.
• Create bridge code to the C99 library and incorporate that code into the startup code of the interpreter
• Add JSON and possibly XML-RPC C libraries to the runtime for networking use
• Possibly create bridge code to Apple's Objective-C and GNUStep's Objective-C 2 runtimes
• Possibly create bridge code for Apache's APR library for networking use
• Create example code
  • There's some work on the way to take care of this. It hasn't been uploaded yet.
• Update the banner line of the interpreter so that when it runs it doesn't announce itself as "PForth", to avoid confusion.
• Replace the banner line to announce itself as "OspreyForth" and continue with licenses for PForth, OspreyForth and the Entities code by Christoph Gärtner