Roadmap

The pynvl package is just warming up!
Here are the planned enhancements and future directions.

---

🔹 Core Functions

• Initial helpers: nvl, decode, sign, noneif, nvl2
• Add more PL/SQL-inspired helpers:
• extract, extract_xml

---

🔹 Pandas Integration

• pd_nvl(series, default) => fill NaN/None with default
• pd_decode(series, mapping, default) => map values with fallback
• pd_sign(series) => vectorized numeric sign

---

🔹 Regex Helpers

• regexp_like(string, pattern) => boolean match
• regexp_substr(string, pattern, occurrence=1) => extract substring
• regexp_replace(string, pattern, replacement) => regex substitution
• regexp_instr(string, pattern) => position of match

🔹 Testing & Quality

• Expand test coverage across all functions
• Cover edge cases (e.g. None == None in decode)

---

🔹 Documentation

• Expand API docs with detailed examples

---

🔹 Longer-Term Ideas

• Performance optimizations for large data sets

---

🔹 Contributions

New ideas are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.