It's almost July

Prothon isn't going to have the specifications for version 1.0 of Prothon
frozen by the beginning of July as I originally scheduled, but we can do the
second best thing.  I'd like to close the door on adding new items for
consideration within the next few days.  So put on your thinking caps and
let us all know your wild ideas now for consideration in version 1.0.  Also
put in your final bids to change existing features.

Here is the outstanding list of items currently under consideration.  Let me
know if I'm missing anything:

1) Stackless language features, thread keyword, lock keyword

2) Continuations

2) call_ str_ "fix", class proposal, other 2-tier paradigms

3) Metaclass replacement

4) Design by contract class

5) Design by contract type check, interfaces

6) Assignment as expression

7) from Module import *

8) 1xc3fe instead of -0xc3fe

9) Taint attribute on strings, unTaint() method

10) _"abc" translation strings

11) conditional expression "if c then x else y"

12) Deterministic finalization

13) Code blocks (extension of function-as-command)

Unfortunately the docs on what is already in Prothon isn't great right now.
You can look in the code or ask me questions.  After the next real release
today or tomorrow you can look in changes.txt.

All we have to do now to finish up the specs for Prothon 1.0 is vote on this
list and get the details nailed down on the ones we decide to include.  I
don't see where that should take more than a week or two.

Then I go through a documentation phase and a big cleanup phase to get a
reference implementation of 1.0 going and we then argue about the finer
details as we start to use it.