module/language/elisp/README

   1 Guile's Emacs Lisp compiler
   2 ===========================
   3
   4 This is more or less a lot of work in progress.  Here are some notes as well
   5 as status information.
   6
   7 Already implemented:
   8   * progn
   9   * if, cond, when, unless
  10   * not, and, or
  11   * referencing and setting (setq) variables
  12   * while, dotimes
  13   * let, let*
  14   * lambda expressions, function calls using list notation
  15   * some built-ins (mainly numbers/arithmetic)
  16   * defconst, defvar, defun
  17   * macros
  18   * quotation and backquotation with unquote/unquote-splicing
  19
  20 Especially still missing:
  21   * other progX forms, will be done in macros
  22   * dolist using macros
  23   * catch/throw, unwind-protect
  24   * real elisp reader instead of Scheme's
  25   * set, makunbound, boundp functions
  26   * more general built-ins
  27   * funcall and apply functions
  28   * fset & friends, defalias functions
  29   * advice?
  30   * defsubst and inlining
  31   * need fluids for function bindings?
  32   * recursive macros
  33   * anonymous macros