ice-9/ChangeLog

   1 Sun Mar  2 05:25:11 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
   2
   3         * boot-9.scm (error-catching-loop thunk): use a status variable to
   4         return the quit args.
   5         (scm-style-repl): call -quit, passing return value from
   6         error-catching-repl.  Make -quit return its args.
   7         stand-alone-repl: comment out, since it seems unused.
   8
   9         (error-catching-loop thunk): discard trailing junk after a (quit).
  10
  11 Sat Mar  1 15:24:39 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
  12
  13         * boot-9.scm: Removed the old printer code.
  14
  15         * r4rs.scm (apply, call-with-current-continuation): Added comment
  16         explaining why apply and call/cc need to be closures.
  17
  18         * boot-9.scm (apply, call-with-current-continuation): Bugfix:
  19         Removed. These definitions are already present in r4rs.scm.
  20
  21         * debug.scm (trace-entry, trace-exit): Check that we're on a repl
  22         stack before printing traced frames; Re-enable trace flag at end
  23         of handlers.
  24
  25 Sat Mar  1 00:10:38 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
  26
  27         * debug.scm: Add hook for reset of trace level at abort.
  28
  29         * boot-9.scm (run-hooks): New procedure.
  30         (add-hooks!): New macro.
  31         Change hooks to use these functions.
  32
  33 *       * debug.scm: *Warning* This feature is a bit premature.  I add
  34         it anyway because 1. it is very useful, and, 2. you can start
  35         making it less premature by complaining to me and by modifying
  36         the source! :-)
  37         (trace): Given one or more procedure objects, trace each one.
  38         Given no arguments, show all traced procedures.
  39         (untrace): Given one or more procedure objects, untrace each one.
  40         Given no arguments, untrace all traced procedures.  The tracing in
  41         Guile have an advantage to most other systems: We don't create new
  42         procedure objects, but mark the procedure objects themselves.
  43         This means that also anonymous and internal procedures can be
  44         traced.
  45
  46         * boot-9.scm (error-catching-loop): Added handling of apply-frame
  47         and exit-frame exceptions.
  48
  49 *       * boot-9.scm (assert-repl-prompt, the-prompt-string): Removed.
  50         (set-repl-prompt!): Setter for repl prompt.
  51         (scm-style-repl): If prompt is #f, don't prompt; if prompt is a
  52         string, display it; if prompt is a thunk, call it and display its
  53         result; otherwise display "> ".
  54         (Change suggested by Roland Orre <orre@nada.kth.se>.)
  55
  56         * r4rs.scm (%load-verbosely): Reverted change to
  57         `module-defined?', since the module system isn't bootstrapped when
  58         we load r4rs.scm.  This is just a temporary fix to make the
  59         repository version runnable.
  60
  61 Thu Feb 27 23:25:47 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
  62
  63         * boot-9.scm: Removed the enabling of debug evaluator and
  64         recording of source code positions.  This was placed there for our
  65         convenience, but it has already sneaked into the distribution
  66         once... so we'd better add this in our local copies instead when
  67         we need it.  (These options are normally enabled at the end of
  68         boot-9.scm when loading the debug module.)
  69
  70 Thu Feb 27 16:04:45 1997  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
  71
  72         * boot-9.scm (module-defined?): New function.
  73         (macroexpand-1, macroexpand): Use local-ref instead of defined?
  74         and eval.
  75         * r4rs.scm (%load-verbosely): Use "module-defined?" instead of
  76         "defined?".
  77         * slib.scm (defined?): New function to take the place of the
  78         builtin "defined?".  It allways examines the slib module.
  79
  80 Mon Feb 24 21:46:15 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
  81
  82         * configure.in: Added AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
  83
  84 Sat Feb 15 04:51:20 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
  85
  86         * boot-9.scm (read-sharp): define directly, don't go through a
  87         %read-sharp layer.
  88
  89 Tue Feb 11 08:45:48 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
  90
  91         * boot-9.scm (uniform-vector-set!): use uniform-array-set1!, not
  92         uniform-vector-set1! which doesn't exist.
  93
  94 Mon Feb 10 03:01:48 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@kenneth>
  95
  96         * boot-9.scm (backtrace): Removed.  (A C version now exists in
  97         backtrace.c.)
  98
  99 Fri Jan 24 06:05:36 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 100
 101         * boot-9.scm (read-line!, read-delimited!, read-delimited,
 102         read-line): new procedures, see libguile/ChangeLog.
 103
 104 Thu Jan 16 17:07:03 1997  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
 105
 106         Added dynamic linking of modules. See libguile/DYNAMIC-LINKING.
 107
 108         * boot-9.scm (split-c-module-name, convert-c-registered-modules,
 109         init-dynamic-module, dynamic-maybe-call,
 110         find-and-link-dynamic-module, link-dynamic-module,
 111         try-module-dynamic-link, registered-modules): New definitions for
 112         dynamic linking of modules.
 113         (resolve-module): Try to dynamically link the requested module
 114         after failing to load it as Scheme code.
 115
 116 Wed Jan  8 05:50:14 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 117
 118         * boot-9.scm (getservbyport, getservbyname): remove stray %.
 119
 120 Tue Jan  7 20:02:24 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
 121
 122         * boot-9.scm (and=>): Rename THUNK argument to PROCEDURE, 'cos
 123         that's what it is.
 124
 125         * lineio.scm (make-line-buffering-input-port): Properly test for
 126         the case of an empty buffer list.  The old code assumed that '()
 127         was false.
 128
 129 Mon Jan  6 01:13:53 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@kenneth>
 130
 131 *       * boot-9.scm (use-modules): New macro (from Marius Vollmer).
 132         (use-modules <module name> ...) Put the the modules named by
 133         <module name> ... on the use list of the current module.
 134
 135 Sun Jan  5 15:52:59 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
 136
 137         * boot-9.scm (error-catching-loop): Remove message saying that
 138         typing "$" will put you in the debugger.  This isn't implemented
 139         yet.
 140
 141 Sun Dec 22 23:27:25 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
 142
 143         * boot-9.scm (delq-all!): Function deleted; delq!'s semantics have
 144         been fixed, so this function is superfluous.
 145         (transform-usage-lambda): Use delq!, not delq-all!.
 146
 147 Tue Dec 17 20:36:45 1996  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
 148
 149         * boot-9.scm (resolve-module): New optional parameter that
 150         controls whether autoloading is attempted or not. Default is #t.
 151         (process-define-module): Don't autoload the defined module.
 152         (try-module-autoload): Don't autoload the directory modules.
 153
 154         * boot-9.scm (process-define-module): Ensure that the-scm-module
 155         is last in the `uses' list to allow shadowing builtin
 156         bindings. All :use-module options are added in the order they
 157         appear in the arguments but before anything already on the list
 158         (such as the-scm-module).
 159
 160 Wed Dec 11 21:06:05 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 161
 162         * slib.scm (slib-parent-dir): throw error if #f returned from
 163         %search-load-path.
 164
 165 Sat Nov 30 23:57:28 1996  Tom Tromey  <tromey@cygnus.com>
 166
 167         * PLUGIN/greet, PLUGIN/split.sed, PLUGIN/this.configure: Removed.
 168         * Makefile.am, aclocal.m4: New files.
 169         * configure.in: Updated for Automake.
 170
 171 Wed Nov 27 14:16:14 1996  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
 172
 173         * boot-9.scm (macroexpand-1, macroexpand), slib.scm
 174         (slib:features), r4rs.scm (%load-verbosely): "defined?" is now a
 175         function, use it accordingly.
 176
 177 Thu Nov 21 11:12:10 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
 178
 179         It's an "eval closure", not an "eval thunk."  A thunk is a
 180         function of no arguments.
 181         * boot-9.scm (module-type): Rename module field.
 182         (make-module, eval-in-module, make-root-module,
 183         set-current-module): Uses changed.
 184         (module-eval-closure, set-module-eval-closure!,
 185         root-module-closure): Renamed from module-eval-thunk,
 186         set-module-eval-thunk!, root-module-thunk.
 187         (set-current-module): Change uses of *top-level-lookup-thunk* to
 188         *top-level-eval-closure*.
 189
 190 Wed Nov 20 14:45:27 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
 191
 192         * slib.scm (slib-parent-dir): Use string-length, not length.
 193         (Thanks to Bernard Urban.)
 194
 195 Sat Nov  2 20:00:42 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 196
 197         * boot-9.scm: The debugging evaluator and recording of positions
 198         aren't enabled by default any longer (they are switched on in
 199         debug.scm).  But during development we want to have them also
 200         *inside* boot-9.scm.  Therefore, two lines are added at the
 201         beginning of boot-9.scm to enable these.
 202
 203         Call `provide' so that `records' are included among the
 204         `*features*'.
 205
 206         The scheme for saving the stack has been adjusted: save-stack is
 207         now commonly available for saving the stack.  Calling `save-stack'
 208         sets a flag `stack-saved?' which prevents overwriting the stack.
 209         `stack-saved?' is reset at `abort'.
 210
 211         Spelling correction: seperate --> separate.
 212
 213         Removed `:'s that had creeped into some comments.
 214
 215         The repl now doesn't print #<unspecified> results any longer
 216         If the user wants to see this, he can do
 217         (assert-repl-print-unspecified #t) in his startup file.
 218
 219         The user now gets a friendly message instead of a backtrace at
 220         error.
 221
 222         Added `before-read-hook'.
 223
 224         Load module (ice-9 emacs) if option `-e' was specified.
 225
 226         (provide): New function.
 227
 228         (error): Save stack at entry, so that Guile entrails won't show up
 229         in backtraces.
 230
 231         (backtrace): New function.
 232
 233         (save-stack): Can now take arbitrary number of stack narrowing
 234         specifier pairs.  The first specifier in a pair controls inner
 235         border, the second the outer border.  A number means cut that
 236         number of frames, a procedure object means cut until that object
 237         is found in operator position in a frame.
 238
 239         * debug.scm: Enable debugging evaluator and recording of positions
 240         by default.
 241
 242         * slib.scm (slib:load): Adapt to the new behavior of
 243         primitive-load: It doesn't any longer try both with and without
 244         ".scm" extension.  (We don't want to use %search-load-path here.)
 245
 246         (implementation-vicinity): New function.  slib requires it
 247
 248         (library-vicinity): Updated.
 249
 250         Load "require.scm" in the library-vicinity.
 251
 252         (install-require-vicinity, install-require-module): New functions.
 253
 254 Mon Oct 28 17:56:29 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
 255
 256         * boot-9.scm (load-from-path): New function.
 257
 258         * boot-9.scm (try-load, basic-try-load, try-load-module,
 259         try-load): Deleted.  I don't think they're being used.
 260
 261         * Makefile.in (scm_files): Add r4rs.scm and test.scm to this list,
 262         so they'll get distributed.
 263
 264         Get Guile to be a little less chatty by default.  The new user
 265         should see as little clutter as possible.
 266         * r4rs.scm (%load-verbosely): Make this #f by default.
 267         * boot-9.scm (scm-repl-verbose): Make this #f by default.
 268         (scm-style-repl): Don't run 'pk' on the value passed to quit.
 269
 270         * r4rs.scm: New file.
 271         * boot-9.scm: Load r4rs.scm, first thing.
 272         (OPEN_READ, OPEN_WRITE, OPEN_BOTH, *null-device*, open-input-file,
 273         open-output-file, open-io-file, close-input-port,
 274         close-output-port, close-io-port, call-with-input-file,
 275         call-with-output-file, with-input-from-port, with-output-to-port,
 276         with-error-to-port, with-input-from-file, with-output-to-file,
 277         with-error-to-file, with-input-from-string, with-output-to-string,
 278         with-error-to-string, the-eof-object): Definitions moved to
 279         r4rs.scm.  Not all of them are R4RS, but those that are use those
 280         that are not.
 281         (load, %load-verbosely, %load-announce): Moved, along with code to
 282         set %load-hook, to r4rs.scm.
 283
 284         * test.scm: New file.
 285
 286         * boot-9.scm (integer?): Definition deleted, in favor of the one
 287         present in libguile (which used to be called int?).  I have no
 288         idea why integer? didn't just call int? to begin with.
 289
 290         * boot-9.scm (<, <=, =, >, >=): Definitions in terms of <?, <=?,
 291         =?, >?, and >=? deleted; they're defined that way by libguile now.
 292
 293         * boot-9.scm (load): Simplified; primitive-load does most of this
 294         work now.
 295         (%load-announce-win): Removed; no longer used.  Set %load-hook to
 296         call %load-announce.
 297
 298 Sun Oct 27 07:47:03 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 299
 300         * boot-9.scm (stat:dev, stat:ino, stat:mode, stat:nlink, stat:uid,
 301         stat:gid, stat:rdev, stat:size, stat:atime, stat:mtime,
 302         stat:ctime, stat:blksize, stat:blocks) accessor functions for stat
 303         components.
 304         (file-is-directory?): use stat:type.
 305
 306 Fri Oct 25 03:34:47 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
 307
 308         * boot-9.scm (%read-sharp): Don't recognize the `#!' syntax here;
 309         that's now taken care of in libguile, and in a way compatible with
 310         SCSH (which this isn't).
 311
 312 Mon Oct 21 18:52:36 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
 313
 314         * boot-9.scm: Formatting tweaks.
 315
 316 Fri Oct 18 01:03:08 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 317
 318         * boot-9.scm (handle-system-error): Added hooks before-error-hook,
 319         after-error-hook, before-backtrace-hook and after-backtrace-hook
 320         to the error handler.  E.g.: fancy emacs support could plug into
 321         these.
 322         (save-stack): New function.  The stack is now made differently
 323         depending on the stack id.  (The motivation is to make a better
 324         choice regarding what stack frames to present to the user.)
 325         (error-catching-loop): Stack handling code moved outside into
 326         save-stack.
 327
 328 Thu Oct 17 20:33:08 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 329
 330         * Makefile.in (scm_files): add expect.scm.
 331
 332         * expect.scm: new file ported from guile-iii.
 333
 334         * boot-9.scm: remove handle-system-error, after moving the code into
 335         error-catching-loop.
 336         Don't set 'throw-handler-default property on error keys.
 337         Just interpret (almost) any throw with 4 args as an error throw.
 338         Delete some try-load stuff that was already commented out.
 339
 340         Second thoughts, keep handle-system-error but call it from
 341         error-catching-loop.
 342
 343 Tue Oct 15 17:07:20 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
 344
 345         * boot-9.scm: Doc fixes.
 346         (make-module): Rework for readability.
 347         (make-root-module, make-scm-module): USES argument to make-module
 348         should be '(), not #f.
 349
 350         * boot-9.scm (try-load): %sys-load-path has been renamed to
 351         primitive-load-path; adjust call here.
 352
 353 Tue Oct 15 14:25:01 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@woody.nada.kth.se>
 354
 355         * boot-9.scm (signal-handler): Bugfix: Moved the recording of
 356         the stack to the correct place: when it is decided to generate an
 357         error-signal.
 358
 359 Mon Oct 14 22:20:30 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@woody.nada.kth.se>
 360
 361         * boot-9.scm (error-catching-loop, signal-handler,
 362         handle-system-error): Backtracing now works for signals aswell;
 363         Backtracing mechanism can now identify the stack root created by
 364         start-stack so that the user isn't exposed to system stack frames.
 365
 366 Mon Oct 14 06:05:42 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@woody.nada.kth.se>
 367
 368         * Makefile.in: Added threads.scm.
 369
 370 Mon Oct 14 04:21:51 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@woody.nada.kth.se>
 371
 372         * debug.scm (make-enable, make-disable): Simplified.
 373
 374         * boot-9.scm: Renamed %%throw-handler-default -->
 375         throw-handler-default.
 376         ((handle-system-error key . arg-list)): Changed the way errors are
 377         reported.
 378         ((scm-style-repl)): Wrap up the call to eval in a start-stack
 379         acro.
 380         ((error-catching-loop thunk)): Introduce a lazy-catch into
 381         error-catching-loop so that the stack can be captured.
 382
 383 Thu Oct 10 22:27:32 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
 384
 385         * mapping.scm (hash-table-mapping): Explicitly request that
 386         make-vector fill new vectors with '(); this will make it easier to
 387         port Guile Scheme code to other Schemes.
 388         * boot-9.scm (make-print-style, make-print-table): Same.
 389
 390 Sun Oct  6 03:54:59 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 391
 392         * boot-9.scm (load): rewritten again.
 393         Append "." to the default %load-path.
 394         (feature?): new function: checks for a symbol in the features list.
 395         (module-local-variable): remove apparently useless (caddr (list m v
 396         ...))
 397         (%load-announce): minor formatting change.
 398         (file-exists?): use access? if posix is featured.
 399         (file-is-directory?): use stat if i/o-extensions is featured.
 400         (try-module-autoload module-name): use file-exists? before
 401         file-is-directory?
 402
 403 Sat Oct  5 18:54:03 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@kenneth>
 404
 405         * boot-9.scm: Added conditional loading of threads.scm.
 406
 407         * threads.scm: New file.  Modified from the Cygnus-r0.3
 408         distribution.
 409
 410         * boot-9.scm (error-catching-loop): Added handling of key
 411         `switch-repl'.
 412
 413         * boot-9.scm: Name change %%bad-throw --> bad-throw.
 414
 415 Wed Oct  2 23:38:44 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
 416
 417         * boot-9.scm (make-record-type, record-constructor): Don't assume
 418         the empty list is false when parsing the argument list.
 419
 420 Mon Sep 30 22:15:50 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
 421
 422         * boot-9.scm (signal-handler): Clean up logic.
 423
 424         * boot-9.scm (load): Assume %load-path is always bound.
 425
 426 Sat Sep 28 00:15:37 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 427
 428         * boot-9.scm (error): replace another throw with scm-error.  Throw
 429         to 'misc-error instead of 'error (no need to distinguish these.)
 430         Don't set up 'error as a key.
 431         Set up regex-error as a key, if regex is available.
 432         (signal-handler): use scm-error, not throw.
 433
 434         (%try-load, try-load-with-path, %load, load-with-path,
 435         basic-try-load-with-path, basic-load-with-path,
 436         try-load-module-with-path,load-module-with-path): deleted, since
 437         they seem redundant.
 438         (try-load): define using %try-load, not try-load-with-path.
 439         (load): rewritten.  load tries to open the file directly and
 440         with a .scm extension before searching the library directories
 441         (should "." be added to %load-path?  then load could still open
 442         directly files starting with "/").
 443         (try-module-autoload): use load, not load-with-path.
 444         (%load-indent): deleted, -2 was causing errors.
 445
 446         (%read-sharp): use port-line, not line-number.
 447
 448 Fri Sep 27 16:23:51 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
 449
 450         * boot-9.scm (%%bad-throw): Delete definition. 1) It's very
 451         straightforward to provide the equivalent functionality using
 452         (catch #t ...), so there's no need for the extra complexity.  2)
 453         Outside the context of a read-eval-print loop (which Guile should
 454         not require) it's not clear we should do anything more complicated
 455         than print an error and exit; the user or REPL can establish
 456         something better if it wants.  3) In that case, it's much more
 457         robust to just do it in the C code.
 458
 459 Tue Sep 24 06:53:04 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 460
 461         * boot-9.scm (%try-load): define using primitive-load.  Previously
 462         %try-load itself was the primitive.
 463         (load-with-path): use scm-error instead of %load-announce-lossage.
 464         Errors are thrown to 'misc-error instead of 'could-not-load.
 465         (%load-announce-lossage): deleted.
 466
 467 Mon Sep 23 00:16:31 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@kenneth>
 468
 469         * boot-9.scm (warn, scm-style-repl): Use C printer instead of `print'.
 470         (make-record-type type-name fields): Temporarily remove support
 471         for printing of records (not possible yet with C printer).
 472
 473 Fri Sep 20 00:24:27 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 474
 475         * boot-9.scm (file-exists?, file-is-directory): catch only
 476         system-error, not every kind of error.
 477         (scm-error): new procedure.
 478
 479 Thu Sep 19 16:02:46 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
 480
 481         * boot-9.scm: Formatting tweaks.
 482
 483 Wed Sep 18 09:07:37 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 484
 485         * boot-9.scm (%%handle-system-error key): remove the code for
 486         SCM-style errors.  handle the case that an unexpected number
 487         of args are supplied.
 488         (%%system-errors): removed.
 489         (error): redefine using a throw with key and 4 args.
 490         ('error): associate 'error, 'error-signal keys with
 491         %%handle-system-error.
 492         (%%default-error-handler): removed.
 493         (signal-handler): throw with 4 args and use the error-signal key.
 494         Create an error message instead of using numerical codes.
 495         (%%bad-throw): call error instead of throw if key not found.
 496
 497 Tue Sep 17 04:11:28 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 498
 499         * boot-9.scm: initialize new error keys (see libguile/ChangeLog).
 500         (%%handle-system-error key): check subr is not #f before printing.
 501         Recognize %s (embed an argument using "display") and
 502         %S (embed an argument using "write").
 503
 504 Sun Sep 15 03:55:35 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 505
 506         * boot-9.scm (%%handle-system-error key): set args and rest to
 507         the empty list if they are #f.
 508         Initialize out-of-range as an error key.
 509
 510 Sat Sep 14 03:41:15 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 511
 512         * PLUGIN/REQ: remove the "ice-9 lgh" line which causes a cycle.
 513
 514         * boot-9.scm: remove leading %% from references to '%%system-error.
 515         (%%handle-system-error): don't pass all the thrown arguments when
 516         aborting, just the key and subr.
 517         Remove the code to "Install default handlers for built-in errors."
 518         Remove the definition of the syserror procedure.
 519         Associate 'numerical-overflow with default handler.
 520
 521 Fri Sep 13 04:58:11 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@woody.nada.kth.se>
 522
 523         * boot-9.scm: Name change: value-ref --> local-ref
 524         resolved-ref --> nested-ref  Motivation: conformance to the other
 525         dictionary operators: list-ref operates on list, vector-ref
 526         operates on vector, nested-ref operates on nested namespace,
 527         local-ref operates on the local nested namespace.
 528
 529 Sat Sep  7 06:44:47 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 530
 531         * boot-9.scm (%%handle-system-error): recognise errors thrown
 532         by lgh-error (fill-message etc.)
 533         (fill-message): check first whether args is null.
 534         (fill-message): bug fix and check that args is a list.
 535
 536 Thu Sep  5 11:33:41 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
 537
 538         * boot-9.scm: %load-path is initialized in C code now.
 539         (implementation-vicinity, parse-path): Deleted, along with code to
 540         initialize %load-path.
 541
 542         * boot-9.scm (in-vicinity): If the vicinity doesn't end with a
 543         "/", use one to separate it from the file.
 544
 545 Thu Aug 29 23:05:11 1996  Thomas Morgan  <tmorgan@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
 546
 547         * boot-9.scm (%load-path): Add the site directory.
 548         Add the directory named after the version number.
 549         Prepend the version number to the other directories in the path.
 550         Simplify by mapping the common prefix onto each item.
 551         * Makefile.in (datadir, pkgdatadir, pkgverdatadir, subpkgdatadir,
 552         sitedatadir): New definitions.
 553         (libparent, libdir, install_path): Replaced by above.
 554         (install): Create the above directories.
 555         Put the source files into subpkgdatadir.
 556         (uninstall): Remove the above directories.
 557
 558 Thu Aug 29 21:48:47 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
 559
 560         Don't use the PLUGIN system to gather information for the
 561         Makefile's distribution and installation targets; just put it all
 562         in the Makefile directly.
 563         * PLUGIN/this.configure (scm_files, aux_files): Remove sections
 564         for these.
 565         * configure.in: Remove code that gets and substitutes scm_files and
 566         aux_files.
 567         * Makefile.in (scm_files, aux_files): Write out the list of files
 568         here, where people expect to find them.
 569
 570 Fri Aug 23 06:44:36 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@woody.nada.kth.se>
 571
 572         * boot-9.scm: Preliminary solution: optionally load the debug
 573         module.  Changed "gls" to "guile1.0b3".
 574
 575         * debug.scm: New file: debug extensions.
 576
 577 Wed Aug 21 13:06:56 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@woody.nada.kth.se>
 578
 579         * boot-9.scm (print-vector): Renamed weak-hash-table? -->
 580         weak-key-hash-table?.  (Again!)
 581
 582 Tue Aug 20 07:31:39 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@woody.nada.kth.se>
 583
 584         * boot-9.scm (print-vector, macro-table, xformer-table):
 585         Renamed weak-hash-table --> weak-key-hash-table.
 586
 587         * poe.scm (funcq-memo): Renamed weak-hash-table -->
 588         weak-key-hash-table.
 589
 590 Sat Aug  3 06:16:35 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 591
 592         * boot-9.scm (*null-device*): global constant from goonix.
 593         (move->fdes): adjusted for boolean primitive-move->fdes.  return
 594         the modified port, always set revealed count to 1 (SCSH compatible).
 595         (release-port-handle port): from goonix (SCSH compatible).
 596         (%open-file): removed.
 597         (open-input-file, open-output-file, file-exists?, file-is-directory?):
 598         modified for open-file change (does not return #f).
 599
 600 Thu Aug  1 02:52:42 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
 601
 602         * Makefile.in (dist-dir): New target for new dist system.
 603         (manifest): Deleted.
 604         * PLUGIN/this.configure (aux_files): Removed PLUGIN; it's a
 605         directory, and needs special treatment in the dist-dir target.
 606
 607 Thu Aug  1 09:00:21 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 608
 609         * boot-9.scm: remove the wrappers for '%' system primitives,
 610         now that they throw errors directly.
 611         remove make-simple-wrapper and similar functions.
 612         protect a call to getenv which may now throw an exception.
 613
 614 Wed Jul 31 23:44:42 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 615
 616         * boot-9.scm (false-if-exception): new macro.
 617
 618 Fri Apr 19 13:53:08 1996  Tom Lord  <lord@beehive>
 619
 620         * The more things change...
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