Test-suite for elisp compiler so far, excluding the built-ins.
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1 Guile's Emacs Lisp compiler
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4 This is more or less a lot of work in progress. Here are some notes as well
5 as status information.
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7 Already implemented:
8 * progn
9 * if, cond
10 * and, or
11 * referencing and setting (setq) variables
12 * while
13 * let, let*
14 * lambda expressions, function calls using list notation
15 * some built-ins (mainly numbers/arithmetic)
16 * defconst, defvar, defun
17
18 Especially still missing:
19 * other progX forms, will be done in macros
20 * where, unless, will be done in macros
21 * dolist, dotimes using macros
22 * catch/throw, unwind-protect
23 * real elisp reader instead of Scheme's
24 * set, makunbound, boundp functions
25 * macros
26 * more general built-ins
27 * funcall and apply functions
28 * fset & friends, defalias functions
29 * advice?
30 * defsubst and inlining
31 * real quoting