backend support tasks

[ct-clmsn]

these lists are a work in progress (subject to change)

passes

• [x] symbol table
• [x] program construction
• [ ] program validation (validate w/type checking)
• [x] code generation

variable declaration with/without value initialization

• [x] scalar int, string, cstring, real declaration
• [x] array int, string, cstring, real declaration
• [x] multi-dimensional array int, string, real
• [x] scalar initialization declaration
• [x] array initialization declaration
• [x] multi-dimensional array initialization w/range
• [x] multi-dimensional array initialization w/domain
• [ ] config, ref, const etc variables
• [ ] domain declaration w/initialization
• [ ] associative domain declaration w/initialization
• [ ] distributed domain support

expressions

• [x] literal + variable + function call binary expressions (=, +, -, /, *, etc)
• [x] function calls (argument lists included) w/binary expressions as arguments
• [x] array access w/binary expressions
• [x] multi-dimensional array access w/binary expressions as index logic
• [ ] casting types

function support (user defined)

• [x] function declarations
• [x] function definitions
• [x] variable declaration support with/without value initialization
• [ ] first class functions/lambdas
• [ ] iterable functions (generator functions)

control flow

• [x] function calls (w/argument lists)
• [x] for loops (for, forall)
• [x] conditionals (if, if-else, else, etc)
• [ ] on
• [ ] begin, cobegin
• [x] coforall
• [ ] zip
• [ ] do
• [ ] locales (user defined types)

integral type support

• [ ] array methods
• [ ] string methods
• [ ] associative array methods
• [ ] byte methods
• [ ] string (utf8) / c_string support
• [ ] template functions, user defined types, etc
• [ ] tuples

user defined types

• [ ] class support (member variables, methods)
• [ ] record support (member variables, methods)

module support

• [ ] import statement