[bpt/guile.git] / TODO

* Add facilities for debugging Scheme programs.

The low-level debugging support is done, and we are now working on the
user interface.

* Documentation.

We have a new layout for the reference manual which covers the
C/Scheme interface, as well as the scheme variants.  We also want a
more thorough tutorial manual, but we haven't sketched that out yet.


Desired later on

* Good interface to Tk

* Add a convenient facility for running a pipeline of processes
with redirections.  Gary Houston <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
is working on this.

* Make it possible to link Guile and TK without using libtcl.a, by
providing Guile-based replacements for the libtcl.a functions that TK
requires.

* Make ordinary lambda functions work as callbacks for Tk;
eliminate the need for tcl-lambda.

* Translators for additional languages; in particular, Perl, Python,
TCL, Emacs Lisp, and Rexx.

* A package for time conversions and formatting.

* Make GDB work with Guile

This would permit programmable debugging and a nice integrated GUI.


Low-level things

* Use the SCM trick of tagging environments with immediates (see m_letrec1)
  to convert source correctly in unmemocopy.


Optimizations

* Eliminate argument checking for closures.  One way to do it is to
  set the cdr of application forms to an immediate representing the
  arity of the call.  If the closure contains a corresponding
  immediate, these can be matched against eachother.

* Implement a thread-safe alternative to SCM's environment caches:

  Add an extra argument to SCM_CEVAL: "evaluation context".
  Evaluation contexts contain a stack of locations.
Commit	Line	Data
a35cabe8 JB	1	* Add facilities for debugging Scheme programs.
a35cabe8 JB	2
f6e372ed JB	3	The low-level debugging support is done, and we are now working on the
f6e372ed JB	4	user interface.
d345f2b2 JB	5
	6	* Documentation.
	7
f6e372ed JB	8	We have a new layout for the reference manual which covers the
	9	C/Scheme interface, as well as the scheme variants. We also want a
	10	more thorough tutorial manual, but we haven't sketched that out yet.
151e0ee5 JB	11
151e0ee5 JB	12
a35cabe8 JB	13	Desired later on
a35cabe8 JB	14
57d09442	15	* Good interface to Tk
d345f2b2	16
a35cabe8 JB	17	* Add a convenient facility for running a pipeline of processes
	18	with redirections. Gary Houston <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
	19	is working on this.
	20
	21	* Make it possible to link Guile and TK without using libtcl.a, by
	22	providing Guile-based replacements for the libtcl.a functions that TK
	23	requires.
	24
	25	* Make ordinary lambda functions work as callbacks for Tk;
	26	eliminate the need for tcl-lambda.
	27
	28	* Translators for additional languages; in particular, Perl, Python,
	29	TCL, Emacs Lisp, and Rexx.
	30
a35cabe8	31	* A package for time conversions and formatting.
973e9b36 JB	32
	33	* Make GDB work with Guile
	34
	35	This would permit programmable debugging and a nice integrated GUI.
82cc1b11 MD	36
	37
	38	Low-level things
	39
	40	* Use the SCM trick of tagging environments with immediates (see m_letrec1)
	41	to convert source correctly in unmemocopy.
c5b738b5 MD	42
	43
	44	Optimizations
	45
	46	* Eliminate argument checking for closures. One way to do it is to
	47	set the cdr of application forms to an immediate representing the
	48	arity of the call. If the closure contains a corresponding
	49	immediate, these can be matched against eachother.
	50
	51	* Implement a thread-safe alternative to SCM's environment caches:
	52
	53	Add an extra argument to SCM_CEVAL: "evaluation context".
	54	Evaluation contexts contain a stack of locations.