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TO-DOs:
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These are features that have been requested, and have been considered,
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but are not yet implemented, because I'm undecided about how or whether they
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should be implemented, and/or because they are difficult and/or time-consuming
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to implement.
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Also, some of these features tend to push libconfig toward becoming a
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general-purpose structured-data storage mechanism, which is really not the
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intended purpose of this library. I think something like sqlite is better
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suited for that sort of thing.
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* Add support for copying settings from one configuration to another. Need a
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recursive function to copy a setting and call itself on all child settings.
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* Add a += operator, so that additional elements can be appended to a list or
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array. The issue with this is defining a consistent syntax. For example:
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x = ( 1, 2, 3 );
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x += ( 4, 5 );
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Should this result in ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ), or ( 1, 2, 3, ( 4, 5 ))? I believe
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it should be the latter. However, only the former makes sense for arrays.
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* Add the ability to insert/delete elements at any position in a list or
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array. A simple implementation would be expensive (shift all the elements
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by one for every insert/delete), and a more efficient implementation would
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add a lot of complexity to the library.
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* Add limited support for preserving comments.
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* Add support for unicode strings? A bit problematic, since flex doesn't
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support unicode input, AFAICT. But maybe supply convenience functions to
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convert between parsed UTF-8 strings and std::wstring.
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