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With the use of Forest it would be possible to load syntax extensions similar to import or include statements in many languages.

It would be very valuable to develop features like this as language extensions in a way similar to libraries or frameworks: as a set of source files to be added to projects no need to switch to another language, or use a modified version of the standard (java) language and compiler just to benefit from the use of one other language feature (such as for AspectJ).

Unlike libraries and frameworks developed for a language it is practically almost impossible for anyone with a good idea to add such features to a language and have other people use it.

the core feature of any other JVM-based language.Īnd probably every developer has his own pet peeves to grow the list even further.

or functional programming (what Scala and Clojure attempt to provide)

syntax support for dynamic languages features ( the Da Vinci Machine).

Generators and the yield statement (again python).

Native syntax for collections such as lists and maps (Python shines here).

Anonymous functions (the lambda operator to be added to Java 8 (maybe.) ).

Interestingly, we can make a similarly long list of features and extensions that have not made it into the language, but might be equally useful, if not more: Take java for example: over the years since its inception it has accumulated numerous extensions to the language: Some abstractions just cannot be described with a language's feature set of types, objects, functions etc, but have been proven to be incredibly useful. I think it would be incredibly useful for programmers, and especially library or framework designers to be able to add your own syntactical constructs to your favorite programming language.