ParaSail Topics to come

The prior entries gave an overview of ParaSail.  Over the next few weeks I hope to write additional entries about:

• ParaSail has no global variables, so how does that work?
• how iterators, streams and for-loops are interrelated in ParaSail;
• using a single compare primitive ("=?") in ParaSail to implement "==", "!=", "<=", ">=", etc.
  
• ParaSail's implicit parallelism and structured synchronization;
• ParaSail private interfaces and interface namespace hierarchy; 
• ParaSail's use of region-based storage management rather than object-at-a-time garbage collection;
  
• ParaSail's use of compile-time checks (mostly), run-time checks (goal is to never need them), and exceptions (only when complexity or race-conditions make them necessary);
  
• how attributes like taintedness (i.e. might this data come from a malicious source?) or physical units (e.g. meters/second, years, ...) can be "layered" onto existing types, along with appropriate pre- and postconditions, to provide additional security, safety, or correctness checking.  Add-on attributes can also be associated with statements or other ParaSail constructs, such as an attribute indicating whether a given statement or operation is potentially blocking (that is, it might wait indefinitely on some queue or some other synchronization structure), or the total amount of stack space required by a given statement or operation.
  

So stay tuned.  If you as a reader have other topics you would be interested in seeing further elaborated, please post a comment to that effect.