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buggy's Issues

Function Objects

Buggy needs a way of declaring function objects to pass functions around. This would greatly improve the way a group implementation is presented. Currently it is not possible to see what happens in e.g. a map function. It simply looks like this.

Where Map:ArrayStreamOut would flow into the function and Map:ResultStreamIn is the resulting value of the function call.

I think the most promising way would be to process those function objects in the postprocessing stage and insert the function in the specified places.

Modules/Postprocessing is done in LiveScript

Module implementations and postprocessings currently support only LiveScript implementations. They should be pure Buggy implementations to avoid Module/Postprocessing dependencies twoard LiveScript or any other language. This is probably not possible until Buggy is capable of more advanced stuff.

• The processing of modules is located at src/resolve.ls
• The evaluation of postprocessing modules is located at src/compose/postprocess.ls

Datatypes

Currently Buggy doesn't care for datatypes and thus cannot automatically identify problems related with datatypes.

Buggy datatypes should be flexible. This means that a datatype is no fixed definition, but besides a semantic description, a datatype is generally a map or a Javascript Object. This allows for a simple name mapping between semantically identical datatypes that name their members differently.
It should be possible to extend datatypes with other definitions, if needed. E.g. one could extend a Point datatype that has only X and Y coordinates with R and PHI if a group uses these to calculate a problem.

This is partly already implemented as every data stream consists of a Javascript Object and the values are extracted via Select. The identification of equal types isn't possible now. In the beginning it would be sufficient to rely on user input for type identification as it is a semantic question that is usually best answered by the user itself.