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This page is intended to collect a list of features. Feel free to add your own, but please tag them with your name.

[edit] Preliminary

• Brace-based syntax parsed into an s-expression -- Daeken
• Real macros operating on the parse tree -- Daeken
• Multiple backends (CLR, JVM, Python at the very least) -- Daeken
• Strongly typed and type inferred, with optional dynamic typing -- Daeken
• No difference between statement and expression context (so nested structures a la Nemerle are supported) -- Daeken
• Nemerle-style pattern matching -- Daeken
• Ruby-style blocks -- Daeken
  • I think Smalltalk style blocks would be a better choice as they're more flexible (and ultimately the inspiration for Ruby's blocks). -- Hamled
• Heavy functional programming support (TCO, standard operations, etc) -- Daeken
• List comprehensions ala Python (if this isn't covered by "functional programming support") -- IrCuBiC
• Enforced member visibility (public/private/etc) -- IrCuBiC
• Solid, and easy to use, FFI -- IrCuBiC
• Support for contracts (maybe as a set of macros?) -- IrCuBiC
• Import aliasing (like Pythons 'import module as foo') [wite]
• Multitudes of flow-control statements (if, unless, when, until, etc), for "readability". Yes, macros, but would be a nice "out-of-the-box" feature. -- IrCuBiC
• Exceptions should be supported (try/catch/finally) -- IrCuBiC
• Some form of lightweight parallelization support, that's easy to use (without having to think about synchronization, etc) -- IrCuBiC
• Lazy eval? -- IrCuBiC
• Reference support in function arguments (ala ref in C#) -- Wite
• Actor-model macros -- Daeken
• Coroutines -- Daeken