ice-9/ChangeLog

   1 1999-03-21  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
   2
   3         * session.scm (apropos-internal): Modified to comply with new
   4         argument order for hash-fold.
   5
   6 1999-03-19  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
   7
   8         * boot-9.scm (try-load-module): New procedure.  Broken out from
   9         resolve-module.
  10         (resolve-module): Bugfix: Make it possible for a module at a
  11         deeper level (x y z) to depend on a module on a higher (x y).
  12
  13         This also has the desired side-effect that multiple attempts to
  14         load a module (e.g. with `use-modules') work until source is
  15         actually found for the module (e.g. because the correct catalog
  16         has been added to the load path).
  17
  18         Use try-load-module.
  19
  20 1999-03-18  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
  21
  22         * session.scm (system-module): New procedure.  Used to switch a
  23         module between system and user state.
  24
  25 1999-03-16  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
  26
  27         * session.scm (apropos-internal): Rewritten using hash-fold.
  28
  29         * emacs.scm, session.scm, slib.scm): Added :no-backtrace in module
  30         definition.
  31
  32 1999-03-14  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
  33
  34         * boot-9.scm (make-record-type): Use `set-struct-vtable-name!' to
  35         associate a name to the record type descriptor so that the object
  36         system can create a wrapper class for it.
  37
  38 1999-03-12  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
  39
  40         Improvement of backtraces: Introduces a new stack narrowing
  41         specifier, #t, for the inner cut.  If the inner cut is specified
  42         by #t, `make-stack' will throw away inner stack frames (most
  43         recent calls on call chain) up to but excluding the first user
  44         stack frame encountered.
  45
  46         This specifier is now used in `save-stack' so that the call
  47         `(save-stack)' will get the new behaviour. [It is recommended that
  48         any error reporting functions written by the user have this call
  49         on the outermost expression level (i.e. as a member of the lambda
  50         list).]
  51
  52         Modules are partitioned into "user" and "system" modules. [I know
  53         that some names used here are silly, but I don't have more time to
  54         spend on a better solution, especially considering that the module
  55         system will be replaced.  But if people have better ideas, then
  56         please tell me!]
  57
  58         System modules are created by adding :no-backtrace among the
  59         define-module switches:
  60
  61         (define-module (foo)
  62           :no-backtrace)
  63
  64         Modules which doesn't have the :no-backtrace specifier are user
  65         modules.
  66
  67         A stack frame is classified as a user frame if it has source code
  68         associated with it and if this source code can be proven to come
  69         from a user module.  If it can be proven to come from a system
  70         module it is a system frame.
  71
  72         Frames which can't be classified, e.g. application frames, are cut
  73         away if they occur between system frames, but are left on the
  74         stack if they occur between the last system frame and the first
  75         user frame encountered.  (Note that the first user frame
  76         encountered is the last user code being evaluated!)
  77
  78         In some cases the system part of the call chain is introduced by
  79         frames which should but can't be proven to be system frames.  The
  80         following workaround has been implemented: The cutting proceeds
  81         over application frames where the operator is marked by the
  82         `system-procedure' property.  (This has been used to cut away
  83         generic function dispatch code in the object system.)
  84
  85         * boot-9.scm (set-system-module!): New procedure: Set system/user
  86         status of a module.;
  87         Mark `the-root-module' and `the-scm-module' as system modules.
  88         (process-define-module): Add new keyword :no-backtrace.
  89
  90         * boot-9.scm (environment-module): Bugfixed.
  91         (set-module-eval-closure!): Add a pointer back from the eval
  92         closure to the module.
  93
  94         * emacs.scm (emacs-load): Reset port filename after transfer.
  95
  96 1999-03-03  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
  97
  98         * slib.scm (make-random-state): Added for compatibility.
  99
 100 1999-02-16  Maciej Stachowiak  <mstachow@alum.mit.edu>
 101
 102         * optargs.scm (lambda*): Handle empty argument lists properly.
 103
 104 1999-02-15  Jim Blandy  <jimb@savonarola.red-bean.com>
 105
 106         Fix from Russ McManus:
 107         * getopt-long.scm (parse-option-spec): Store 'optional as the
 108         value-required? field for options that take optional values.
 109         (process-short-option): Grab a value for the option when it takes
 110         either an optional or required value.
 111
 112 1999-02-12  Jim Blandy  <jimb@savonarola.red-bean.com>
 113
 114         * getopt-long.scm: Remove debugging calls to `pk'.
 115
 116         * getopt-long.scm: Return list of ordinary arguments as the value
 117         of the '() key, not `rest'.
 118
 119         A new argument-processing package from Russ McManus.
 120         * getopt-long.scm: New file.
 121         * Makefile.am (ice9_sources): Added getopt-long.scm.
 122         * Makefile.in: Regenerated.
 123
 124 1999-02-09  Maciej Stachowiak  <mstachow@alum.mit.edu>
 125
 126         * optargs.scm: New file.
 127         * Makefile.am (ice9_sources): Add optargs.scm here. Makefile.in
 128         not regenerated because I don't have the right version of Automake.
 129
 130 1999-02-06  Jim Blandy  <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
 131
 132         * and-let*.scm: New file, from Michael Livshin.
 133         * Makefile.am (ice9_sources): Add and-let* here.
 134         * Makefile.in: Regenerated.
 135
 136 1999-01-11  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 137
 138         * slib.scm (install-require-module): Fixed the kludge which loads
 139         the slib catalog: Doesn't anylonger assume that the feature tested
 140         for isn't loaded.
 141
 142 1998-12-14  Jim Blandy  <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
 143
 144         * Makefile.in: Regenerated.
 145
 146 1998-12-14  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 147
 148         * boot-9.scm (process-define-module): Reverted the change of
 149         1998-11-23 which caused loading of object code if :use-module was
 150         applied to the module itself.
 151
 152 1998-12-11  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 153
 154         * Makefile.am: Removed setf.scm.
 155
 156         * setf.scm: Removed.  1. It was buggy.  2. It was unschemey.
 157         (These shortcomings were my fault.)
 158
 159 1998-12-10  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 160
 161         * boot-9.scm (environment-module): New procedure.
 162
 163 1998-12-07  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 164
 165         * Makefile.am: Added setf.scm.
 166
 167 1998-12-05  Christian Lynbech  <chl@tbit.dk>
 168
 169         * setf.scm: New file.  Adds the new forms `setf!' and `setter'
 170         which implements generalized references a la Common LISP.
 171
 172 1998-12-02  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 173
 174         * boot-9.scm (process-define-module): Added new specifier
 175         :autoload MODULENAME BINDINGS to the define-module form.
 176         The autoload specifier tells the module system to load the module
 177         MODULENAME at the first occasion that any variable with its name
 178         among BINDINGS is referenced.
 179         (make-autoload-interface): New procedure:  Constructs a stand-in
 180         for the public interface for the module to be autoloaded.
 181
 182 1998-12-01  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 183
 184         * boot-9.scm (*suppress-old-style-hook-warning*): Set this to #t
 185         if you don't want the old style hook warnings.
 186
 187 1998-12-01  Christian Lynbech  <chl@tbit.dk>
 188
 189         * boot-9.scm (try-using-libtool-name): Fix check on dlname to make
 190         sure that it isn't empty, as it is when we are only buidling
 191         static libraries.
 192
 193 1998-11-27  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 194
 195         * session.scm (arity): New procedure.
 196
 197 1998-11-26  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 198
 199         * boot-9.scm: Use run-hook instead of run-hooks everywhere.
 200
 201 1998-11-26  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 202
 203         * boot-9.scm (run-hooks, add-hook!, remove-hook!): Added temporary
 204         code for backward compatibility until people have had time to
 205         adapt to the new hooks.
 206
 207 1998-11-23  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 208
 209         * boot-9.scm (beautify-user-module!): Beautify also if public
 210         interface is set to the module itself.  In this way we can use
 211         beautify-user-module! to beautify a module prepared for object
 212         code.
 213         (process-define-module): Special case: Try to load object code as
 214         well if a module does :use-module on itself.
 215
 216         * boot-9.scm: Bugfix: Since boot-9.scm is now loaded from
 217         invoke_main_func, we can no longer be sure that all modules have
 218         been registered when boot-9.scm is loaded.
 219         (register-modules): New function: Register and tag modules
 220         registered by scm_register_module_xxx since last call to this
 221         function.  Modules are tagged with the dynamic object passed as
 222         argument.  (Already linked modules should be tagged with #f.)
 223         (init-dynamic-module, link-dynamic-module): Call register-modules
 224         first to register linked modules.
 225
 226         * boot-9.scm (init-dynamic-module): Remove module from
 227         registered-modules as soon as possible in case we are recursively
 228         invoked; Set public interface before doing the dynamic-call.
 229
 230         * boot-9.scm (map-in-order): Removed (replaced by scm_serial_map).
 231         (abort-hook, before-error-hook, after-error-hook,
 232         before-backtrace-hook, after-backtrace-hook, before-read-hook,
 233         after-read-hook, exit-hook): Make hooks with `make-hook'.
 234
 235         * boot-9.scm: Make hooks first class citizens and make them easier
 236         to use from C:
 237         (make-hook, add-hook!, remove-hook!, run-hooks): Moved to
 238         libguile/feature.c.
 239
 240         * boot-9.scm: Added warnings about bindings used in
 241         libguile/modules.c: the-module, set-current-module,
 242         make-modules-in, beautify-user-module!, module-eval-closure.
 243
 244 1998-11-21  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@kenneth>
 245
 246         * boot-9.scm (the-environment): New special form: Returns an
 247         object representing the current local evaluation environment.
 248         This object can be used in `local-eval' and `defined?'.
 249
 250 1998-11-13  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 251
 252         * boot-9.scm (collect): New syntax.  Similar to begin but returns
 253         a list of the results of all forms in the sequence instead of the
 254         result of the last form.
 255
 256 1998-11-10  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 257
 258         * boot-9.scm (values, call-with-values): Moved here from
 259         syncase.scm.
 260
 261         * syncase.scm (values, call-with-values): Moved to boot-9.scm.
 262
 263         * boot-9.scm (readline-options, readline-enable, readline.disable,
 264         readline-set!: New options interface.
 265
 266         * readline.scm (readline-port): Use readline-options-interface.
 267
 268 1998-11-05  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 269
 270         * boot-9.scm: Set the repl start module in `top-repl' instead of
 271         at the end of boot-9.scm.
 272
 273 1998-11-01  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 274
 275         * emacs.scm (format): Bugfix: Handle multiple arguments
 276         correctly.  (Thanks to Thien-Thi Nguyen.)
 277
 278 1998-11-01  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 279
 280         * boot-9.scm (exit-hook): New hook: Is run at the very end of an
 281         interactive session.
 282         (top-repl): Run exit-hook on exit.
 283
 284         * readline.scm (readline-port): Maybe read history; Maybe write
 285         history at exit (add to exit-hook).
 286
 287 Fri Oct 30 15:15:37 1998  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 288
 289         * readline.scm (make-readline-port): Bugfixed last change...
 290
 291 1998-10-28  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 292
 293         * readline.scm (make-readline-port): Don't set prompt to "... " if
 294         read line was empty.
 295
 296 1998-10-19  Jim Blandy  <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
 297
 298         * boot-9.scm, debug.scm, expect.scm, hcons.scm, lineio.scm,
 299         r4rs.scm, slib.scm, threads.scm: Update copyright years.
 300
 301         * getopt-gnu-style.scm, slib.scm: Add copyright notice.
 302
 303         Talked to Stallman.  Actually, the syntax-case copyright is no
 304         problem.  Duh.
 305         * Makefile.am (ice9_sources): Revert last change.
 306         * syncase.scm, psyntax.pp, psyntax.ss: Added again.
 307         * Makefile.in: Regeneretade.
 308
 309         * boot-9.scm: Don't assume that this file is loaded just before
 310         entering a read-eval-print loop.  Turn code to load (ice-9 emacs)
 311         into...
 312         (load-emacs-interface): New function.
 313         (top-repl): Call it, if use-emacs-interface is defined and true.
 314         At this point, we *do* know we're about to enter a REPL.
 315
 316         We can't include Kent Dybvig's syntax-case macro expander in the
 317         core Guile distribution, because we don't have copyright
 318         assignments for this code.  We can certainly distribute them as a
 319         separate package, but Guile should be FSF code.
 320         * syncase.scm, psyntax.pp, psyntax.ss: Removed.
 321         * Makefile.am (ice9_sources): Removed syncase.scm, psyntax.pp, and
 322         psyntax.ss.
 323         * Makefile.in: Regenerated.
 324
 325         * Makefile.am (ice9_sources): Add getopt-gnu-style.scm.
 326         * Makefile.in: Regenerated.
 327
 328 1998-10-18  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 329
 330         * boot-9.scm: Added extended read syntax for byte vectors #y(...)
 331         and short vectors #h(...).
 332
 333 1998-10-14  Jim Blandy  <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
 334
 335         * calling.scm (excursion-function-syntax): Use a sequence of
 336         set!'s, not a single multi-variable set!; we removed support for
 337         that syntax a long time ago.  (Thanks to Shuji Narazaki.)
 338
 339 1998-10-12  Jim Blandy  <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
 340
 341         * r4rs.scm (OPEN_READ, OPEN_WRITE, OPEN_BOTH): Don't bother
 342         testing software-type here.  That's the least of our Windows
 343         porting issues, and it's done wrong anyway.
 344
 345 1998-10-09  Jim Blandy  <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
 346
 347         * boot-9.scm (read-path-list-notation-warning): New function:
 348         print a warning the first time we see `#/' notation.
 349
 350         * q.scm (sync-q!, q?, q-remove!, q-push!, enq!): Lots of bugs, and
 351         (eq?  #f '()) assumptions.  Make functions that aren't documented
 352         to return anything else return the queue itself.  (Bug report from
 353         Michael Livshin --- thanks!)
 354
 355 1998-08-21  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 356
 357         * debug.scm (trace-entry, trace-exit): Removed re-enabling of
 358         trace flag.
 359
 360         * boot-9.scm (make-options): Bugfix: Changed pair? --> list? in
 361         order to allow the empty list as arg.
 362         (error-catching-loop): Use `with-traps' to create a dynamic
 363         context with traps enabled.
 364
 365 1998-08-19  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 366
 367         * boot-9.scm: Removed (ice-9 regex) from use-list of (guile)
 368         module.
 369         (try-using-libtool-name): Removed dependency on (ice-9 regex).
 370
 371 1998-08-15  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 372
 373         * boot-9.scm: Make the root module use (ice-9 regex) if
 374         available.  The dynamic linking facilities in boot-9.scm are
 375         currently dependent upon regular expressions.  My change of
 376         1998-07-14 removed (ice-9 regex) from the use-list of the root
 377         module and thereby destroyed dynamic linking.
 378
 379 1998-07-29  Jim Blandy  <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
 380
 381         * Makefile.in: Regenerated using the last public version of
 382         automake, not the hacked Cygnus version.
 383
 384 1998-07-28  Jim Blandy  <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
 385
 386         * Makefile.in: Regenerated, after removing Totoro kludge.
 387
 388 1998-07-28  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.red-bean.com>
 389
 390         * getopt-gnu-style.scm: New file.  (Thanks to Russ McManus.)
 391
 392 1998-07-26  Jim Blandy  <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
 393
 394         * Makefile.in Rebuilt, for config changes in parent dir.
 395
 396 1998-07-21  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 397
 398         * readline.scm (make-readline-port): Set prompt string to "... "
 399         after first read line.  (Thanks to Richard Polton.)
 400
 401 1998-07-19  Jim Blandy  <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
 402
 403         * lineio.scm (make-line-buffering-input-port): Don't use
 404         ungetc-char-ready?, since we don't provide that function any
 405         more.  The unread-string function doesn't interact properly with
 406         any of the standard I/O functions anyway.  (Thanks to Andrew
 407         Archibald.)
 408
 409         * hcons.scm (hashq-cons-assoc): Don't assume the empty list is
 410         false.  Return false when we cannot find a matching entry in the
 411         list.  (Thanks to Andrew Archibald.)
 412
 413 1998-07-16  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 414
 415         * boot-9.scm (export, export-syntax): New special forms: Export
 416         bindings from a module.  `(export name1 name2 ...)' can be used at
 417         the top of a module (after `define-module') to specify which names
 418         should be exported.  It can be used as an alternative to
 419         `define-public'.  `export-syntax' works equivalently to `export'
 420         but is intended for export of syntactic keywords.
 421         (Thanks to Thien-Thi Nguyen.)
 422
 423 1998-07-15  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 424
 425         * boot-9.scm: Renamed module `(guile-repl)' --> `(guile-user)'.
 426
 427 1998-07-14  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 428
 429         * boot-9.scm: Let the user start in module `(guile-repl)' instead
 430         of module `(guile)'.  Also make sure that `(guile-repl)' uses
 431         suitable modules.  This change improves Guile stability
 432         substantially since bindings will only be copied from the root
 433         module: If the user redefines builtins in `(guile-repl)' it won't
 434         affect the internal operation of Guile itself.
 435
 436 1998-06-19  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 437
 438         * boot-9.scm (load-module): When loading files from within files
 439         themselves being loaded: Use the directory path of the file being
 440         loaded as root for relative filenames.  (After suggestion by
 441         Steven G. Johnson.)
 442
 443 1998-06-15  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 444
 445         * emacs.scm (emacs-load): New feature: Eval in specified module.
 446
 447 1998-06-14  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 448
 449         * readline.scm: Typo in regex module name.
 450
 451 1998-06-13  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 452
 453         * readline.scm (apropos-completion-function): regexp-quote text to
 454         be completed.
 455
 456 1998-06-11  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 457
 458         * debug.scm, emacs.scm: Bugfix: Treat `the-last-stack' as a fluid.
 459
 460 1998-06-09  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 461
 462         * boot-9.scm: Check that (current-input-port) is a tty before
 463         enabling readline.  (Thanks to Michael N. Livshin.)
 464
 465 1998-06-07  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 466
 467         * boot-9.scm (use-syntax): Turned into a macro inorder to be
 468         similar in use to `use-modules'.
 469         Example: (use-syntax (ice-9 syncase)) will 1. load the module
 470         (ice-9 syncase), and, 2. install the procedure `syncase' as eval
 471         transformer.
 472         (internal-use-syntax): New procedure.
 473         (process-define-module): Use `internal-use-syntax'.
 474
 475 1998-05-19  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 476
 477         * Makefile.am (ice9_sources): Add emacs.scm.
 478
 479 1998-05-13  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 480
 481         * readline.scm: Use the new readline facilities: Add the
 482         possibility to control input and output ports; Add apropos
 483         completion.
 484
 485         * boot-9.scm: Antirevert Jim's readline code which he reverted
 486         19971027 and adapt it to the current readline interface.
 487
 488         * boot-9.scm (top-repl): Only enable readline if not using the
 489         Emacs interface; Only use repl prompt when using the readline port
 490         from repl-read.  (We don't want to see it when calling `read'.)
 491
 492         * boot-9.scm (remove-hook!): Parenthesis bug.
 493
 494 1998-05-11  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@kenneth>
 495
 496         * boot-9.scm: Load readline module if readline is present.
 497
 498         * readline.scm (apropos-completion-function): New procedure:
 499         Symbolic completion.  (Thanks to Andrew Archibald!)
 500
 501 1998-04-22  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 502
 503         * boot-9.scm (process-define-module): Added keyword use-syntax.
 504
 505 1998-04-19  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 506
 507         * nonblocking.scm: Removed.  libguile is now inherently
 508         nonblocking through the use of scm_internal_select.
 509
 510         * emacs.scm: Removed use of nonblocking.scm.
 511
 512         * gwish.scm, gtcl.scm: Removed.  tcltk.scm has made these
 513         obsolete.
 514
 515 1998-04-15  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@nada.kth.se>
 516
 517         * runq.scm (runq-control): Corrected spelling of enqueue!.
 518         (Thanks to Karl M. Hegbloom.)
 519
 520 1998-03-30  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@nada.kth.se>
 521
 522         * boot-9.scm: Added new run-time option interface eval-options.
 523
 524 1998-03-28  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 525
 526         * boot-9.scm (remove-hook!): New macro.  (Thanks to Maciej
 527         Stachowiak.)
 528
 529 1998-01-30  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 530
 531         * threads.scm: Added simple error and signal handler.
 532         (make-thread, begin-handler): Use this handler.  The most
 533         important effect of this is that signals get unmasked.
 534         Previously, when a signal was thrown signals remained masked
 535         (signals get masked when a signal is taken) which influenced other
 536         threads.
 537
 538 1998-01-01  Tim Pierce  <twp@skepsis.com>
 539
 540         A better fix to the SLIB identity problem -- thanks to Marius Vollmer.
 541         * slib.scm (identity): Unmake public.
 542         (slib:eval): Evaluate inside `slib-module'.
 543
 544 1997-12-24  Tim Pierce  <twp@skepsis.com>
 545
 546         * boot-9.scm: Doc fix.
 547
 548         * slib.scm (identity): Made public.
 549         (home-vicinity): New function (from SLIB/Template.scm).
 550
 551 1997-12-13  Tim Pierce  <twp@skepsis.com>
 552
 553         * boot-9.scm (read-line): Rewritten to call %read-line for
 554         improved speed.  Minor user-visible changes: the new functions are
 555         hardwired to treat the LFD character as signifying end-of-line, so
 556         changing `scm-line-incrementors' will no longer affect the
 557         behavior of read-line.  On platforms which do not represent
 558         end-of-line with a LFD character, read-line should behave more
 559         like native line-processing facilities, but there is still a ways
 560         to go here.
 561
 562 Sat Nov 29 01:24:46 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@kenneth>
 563
 564         * boot-9.scm (error-catching-loop, save-stack): `the-last-stack'
 565         is now a fluid.
 566
 567 1997-11-28  Tim Pierce  <twp@skepsis.com>
 568
 569         * boot-9.scm (find-and-link-dynamic-module): If a module directory
 570         contains a .la file (a libtool support file), attempt to extract
 571         the shared library name from that file.  If the .la file does not
 572         exist, try to link against a .so file.  Libtool-generated compiled
 573         modules should load more cleanly in Guile now.
 574         (try-using-libtool-name, try-using-sharlib-name): New functions.
 575
 576 Sun Nov  9 06:10:59 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 577
 578         * boot-9.scm (set-batch-mode?!, batch-mode?): initialize more
 579         usefully so they will work from a script.
 580
 581 1997-10-31  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
 582
 583         * boot-9.scm (inherit-print-state): Moved definition to the
 584         neighborhood of the record code.
 585
 586 Mon Oct 27 02:05:49 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.red-bean.com>
 587
 588         * boot-9.scm: Revert changes to this file from Oct 23.  It turns
 589         out to interact badly with the Emacs support and the Tcl/Tk
 590         support.  It's not a high enough priority at the moment to be
 591         worth fixing.  I'm leaving the other readline support in, though.
 592
 593 Sat Oct 25 14:23:22 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.red-bean.com>
 594
 595         * Makefile.am: Include readline.scm in the list of files to be
 596         installed, so Guile can find it for interactive use.
 597         * Makefile.in: Regenerated.
 598
 599 Thu Oct 23 01:00:33 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.red-bean.com>
 600
 601         Add support for readline function.
 602         * readline.scm: New module.
 603         * boot-9.scm (repl-reader): New function.
 604         (scm-style-repl): Call repl-reader, instead of doing the reading
 605         ourselves.  Remove repl-report-reset; it was never used for
 606         anything.
 607         (top-repl): If we've got the readline primitives, then redefine
 608         repl-reader to use them.
 609         If we've got the readline primitives, import the readline module.
 610
 611         * ls.scm (ls, lls): Don't assume (eq? #f '()).
 612
 613 Wed Oct 22 18:26:57 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.red-bean.com>
 614
 615         * calling.scm, common-list.scm, ls.scm, q.scm, runq.scm,
 616         string-fun.scm: Added copyright notices; reformatted.
 617
 618 Thu Oct  9 05:44:00 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 619
 620         * expect.scm: (expect-regexec): new procedure, use it in
 621         expect-strings to fix the => syntax under the new regex system.
 622         (top): include regex module in define-module statement.
 623
 624 Wed Oct  8 03:16:01 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 625
 626         * (error-catching-loop): new local variable "interactive".  if
 627         #f, abort terminates the process.
 628         (set-batch-mode?!, batch-mode?): new closures, defined in
 629         error-catching-loop.  the names are from scsh.
 630
 631 1997-10-06  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
 632
 633         * boot-9.scm (inherit-print-state): If NEW-PORT contains a
 634         print-state, throw it away.
 635
 636 Fri Oct  3 12:00:00  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@nada.kth.se>
 637
 638         * boot-9.scm (struct-layout): Use `vtable-index-layout' instead of
 639         `0'.
 640
 641 Thu Oct  2 12:00:00  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@nada.kth.se>
 642
 643         * boot-9.scm (struct-printer, make-struct-printer,
 644         set-struct-printer-in-vtable!, *struct-printer*): Removed.
 645         (record-type-vtable, make-record-type): Don't use make-struct-printer.
 646         (record-type-vtable): User fields "prpr" (printer is no longer a
 647         user field).
 648         (record-type-name, record-type-fields): Decreased slot index by
 649         one; Use `vtable-offset-user'.
 650
 651 Thu Oct  2 12:00:00  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
 652
 653         * boot-9.scm (inherit-print-state): New experimental function.
 654
 655 Tue Sep 30 13:12:48 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.red-bean.com>
 656
 657         Suggestion and script from Maciej Stachowiak:
 658         * boot-9.scm: Split off modules into separate, autoloadable files.
 659         This reduces startup time from 10.5s to 5.5s (user cpu).
 660         * calling.scm, common-list.scm, ls.scm, q.scm, runq.scm,
 661         string-fun.scm: New files, containing stuff that used to be in
 662         boot-9.scm.
 663         * Makefile.am (ice9_sources): List new files here, for
 664         distribution and installation.
 665         * Makefile.in: Regenerated.
 666
 667 Mon Sep 29 23:53:55 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.red-bean.com>
 668
 669         * Makefile.in: Regenerated with automake 1.2c.
 670
 671 Mon Sep 29 03:21:24 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 672
 673         * slib.scm (slib:load): slib:load first tries to load the file
 674         named NAME, then NAME.scm.  On error, report the error occuring at
 675         the first attempt (NAME) rather than the second (NAME.scm).
 676
 677         * boot-9.scm: Bugfix: Hard-solder the print-option procedure into
 678         the make-options macro so that we needn't refer to a global
 679         symbol.
 680
 681 Sun Sep 28 21:40:24 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 682
 683         * debug.scm: Moved options interface procedures to boot-9.scm.
 684
 685         * boot-9.scm: Define options interface procedures here instead.
 686
 687 Sat Sep 27 20:19:20 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.red-bean.com>
 688
 689         * boot-9.scm (separate-fields-discarding-char,
 690         separate-fields-after-char, separate-fields-before-char): Call
 691         continuation function, RET, as advertised: with each separated
 692         field a separate argument.
 693
 694         * Makefile.in: Regenerated with automake 1.2a.
 695
 696 Sat Sep 20 14:23:53 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@kenneth>
 697
 698         * slib.scm (slib:load): Export.
 699
 700         * boot-9.scm (in-vicinity): Bugfix: Don't add "/" to an empty
 701         vicinity;
 702         Provide defmacro.
 703
 704 Thu Sep 18 01:24:31 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 705
 706         * r4rs.scm (apply): Set name property to 'apply.
 707
 708 Tue Sep 16 22:09:50 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 709
 710         * boot-9.scm (keyword->symbol, display-usage-report): Changed
 711         length --> string-length.  (Thanks to Aleksandar Bakic.)
 712         (separate-fields-discarding-char, separate-fields-after-char,
 713         separate-fields-before-char): Bugfix from Maciej Stachowiak
 714         <mstachow@mit.edu>.  Thanks!
 715         (try-module-linked): Try to find module among those already
 716         registered.
 717         (try-module-dynamic-link): Removed the first test which
 718         corresponds to a call to `try-module-linked'.
 719         (resolve-module): Resolve modules in this order: 1. Already
 720         registered modules (for example those which have been statically
 721         linked), 2. Try to autoload an .scm-file, 3. Try to dynamically
 722         link a .so-file.
 723
 724 Mon Sep 15 23:39:54 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 725
 726         * boot-9.scm (iota): Renamed list-reverse! --> reverse!
 727
 728 Thu Sep 11 02:31:38 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 729
 730         * session.scm (name): New procedure: Gives name of object.
 731         (source): New procedure: Gives source of object.
 732
 733 Wed Sep 10 20:12:45 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 734
 735         * boot-9.scm (primitive-macro?): New procedure.
 736
 737         * slib.scm: Added hack which transfers syntactic information from
 738         the builtin variable `define' to the slib version if module (ice-9
 739         syncase) has been loaded.  This is necessary to get correct
 740         expansion inside the slib module.
 741
 742         * psyntax.ss (build-let, build-named-let): New output
 743         constructors.
 744         (build-lexical-var): Seed gensym with symbolic name.
 745         (self-evaluating?): Add keywords among self-evaluating types.
 746         (let): New core form.
 747         (if): Removed from core language.
 748         (or, and, let, cond): Removed syntactic definitions.
 749         (sc-expand3): New procedure: Expander which takes optional mode
 750         and eval-syntactic-expanders-when arguments.
 751
 752         * syncase.scm (psyncomp): New procedure: Recompiles psyntax.pp.
 753         Should be used inside the (ice-9 syncase) module with (use-syntax
 754         syncase) and with the current directory containing the psyntax.ss
 755         source.
 756         Added hack to transfer syntactic information from the builtin
 757         variable `define' to the slib version if module (ice-9 slib) has
 758         been loaded.
 759
 760 Fri Sep  5 05:47:36 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@faun.nada.kth.se>
 761
 762         * syncase.scm (sc-interface, sc-expand): Removed hook setup.
 763         (syncase): Publish syntax transformer to be used with
 764         `use-syntax'.
 765         (sc-macro): Use this as the value when publishing macros.
 766
 767         * boot-9.scm (module-type): Added `transformer'.
 768         (make-module): Modified initialization.
 769         (module-transformer, set-module-transformer!): Selector and
 770         mutator for module-associated transformer.
 771         (set-current-module): Use module-transformer to set
 772         `scm:eval-transformer'.
 773         (module-use!): Previous change reverted.
 774         (use-syntax): New function: Install a transformer in current
 775         module.
 776         (sc-interface, sc-expand): Removed! :)
 777
 778 Fri Sep  5 03:09:09 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 779
 780         * emacs.scm (emacs-load): Added new parameter `module'.
 781
 782         * syncase.scm (putprop, getprop): Modified to use the object
 783         properties of the variable object corresponding to the symbol;
 784         This way we can ride on the mechanisms of the module system.
 785         Changed `builtin-variable' calls to `define-public' calls.
 786         Setup the hooks sc-expand and sc-interface.
 787
 788         * boot-9.scm (sc-interface, sc-expand): New builtin variables.
 789         (set-current-module): Switch to and from sc-expand as
 790         scm:eval-transformer when going into and out of modules using
 791         syncase macros.
 792         (module-use!): Set scm:eval-transformer to sc-expand when adding
 793         the syncase interface.
 794
 795 Thu Sep  4 14:57:04 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 796
 797         * syncase.scm (putprop): Temporary fix which publishes new syntax
 798         globally (the old behaviour was complex and connected to the inner
 799         workings of the current module system).
 800
 801 Wed Sep  3 21:29:13 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 802
 803         * psyntax.ss: Updated.
 804         psyntax.pp: Bugfix: Previous version had some leading "t":s cut
 805         off!
 806
 807 Tue Sep  2 00:26:42 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 808
 809         * boot-9.scm (gensym): Removed (replaced by primitive).
 810         (obarray-gensym): Rewritten to use `gensym'.
 811         (gentemp): Rewritten to use `gensym'.
 812
 813 Mon Sep  1 20:08:32 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 814
 815         * gtcl.scm (make-tcl-binder): Rewritten to choose bindings
 816         according to the following priorities:
 817         1. tcl bindings which are present in override-scheme-list
 818         2. bindings from the-scm-module
 819         3. tcl bindings
 820         This way the gtcl module can occur first in the use-list without
 821         disabling the scheme interpreter.
 822         (new-interpreter): New function.
 823
 824         * gwish.scm: Moved initialization code for the-interpreter to
 825         gtcl.scm; Moved name space cleaning code to gtcl.scm and rewrote
 826         it; Call `new-interpreter'; Don't :use-module (guile).
 827
 828 Thu Aug 28 23:48:53 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.red-bean.com>
 829
 830         * Makefile.in: Regenerated.
 831
 832 Wed Aug 27 11:35:09 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.red-bean.com>
 833
 834         * Makefile.in: Regenerated, so it uses "tar", not "gtar".
 835
 836 Mon Aug 25 22:00:44 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 837
 838         * emacs.scm (object->string, format, error-args->string): New
 839         procedures.
 840         (emacs-frame-eval): Reworked.
 841
 842 Mon Aug 25 16:15:55 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 843
 844         * session.scm (apropos-internal): Musn't initialize symbol
 845         accumulator with a constant pair.  That led to mutation of the
 846         source!
 847
 848 Sun Aug 24 01:03:10 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@kenneth>
 849
 850         * session.scm (vector-for-each): Removed.
 851         (apropos): vector-for-each --> array-for-each.
 852         (apropos-internal): New function.  Return list of accessible
 853         symbols matching regexp.
 854
 855         * debug.scm (frame-number->index): New function.  Convert frame
 856         number (as displayed in the backtrace) to frame index (to be used
 857         in stack-ref).
 858
 859         * emacs.scm (emacs-load): New arguments: interactivep: when
 860         non-false, send back results to Emacs; colnum: Column number;
 861         Use modules (ice-9 debug) and (ice-9 session);
 862         (no-stack, no-source): New simple-actions;
 863         (result-to-emacs): New procedure. Sends data to Emacs via the
 864         result protocol;
 865         (get-frame-source, emacs-select-frame, emacs-frame-eval,
 866         emacs-symdoc): New procedures.
 867
 868 Wed Aug 20 13:21:11 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 869
 870         * emacs.scm (emacs-load): Adjust stack narrowing.
 871         (whitespace-chars): Include #\np.
 872
 873         * syncase.scm: Also turn off debugging evaluator and recording of
 874         procedure names during loading of psyntax.pp.
 875
 876         * psyntax.pp: Removed leading blanks => 800K -> 100K.
 877
 878 Tue Aug 19 02:39:41 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 879
 880         * syncase.scm: Don't tamper with debug mode setting when enabling
 881         macros.  Instead cut the stack with start-stack.
 882         Load psyntax.pp with recording of positions turned off.
 883
 884         * psyntax.pp, psyntax.ss (quasiquote): Changed fx= --> =.
 885
 886         * syncase.scm: New file: Guile-adaption for syntax-case macros.
 887         * psyntax.pp, psyntax.ss: Syntax-case macros, portable version 2 by
 888         R. Kent Dybvig, Oscar Waddell, Bob Hieb and Carl Bruggeman
 889
 890 Mon Aug 18 21:58:25 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 891
 892         * session.scm: New file: Session support.
 893         (apropos): New procedure: List bindings given regexp.
 894
 895 Sat Aug 16 18:44:24 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 896
 897         * boot-9.scm: define tms accessors: clock, utime, stime, cutime,
 898         cstime.
 899
 900 Thu Aug 14 19:55:37 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 901
 902         * emacs.scm (emacs-load): Something has changed in the reader so
 903         that we now should set the port line count to the specified value
 904         (linum) instead of (- linum 1).
 905
 906         * slib.scm (slib:load): Use load-from-path instead of
 907         primitive-load-path so that backtraces get narrowed properly at
 908         the top.
 909
 910         * boot-9.scm (top-repl): Save stack already in signal handler in
 911         order to narrow it correctly.
 912         (save-stack): Adjust narrowing tag for the top of load-stacks.
 913
 914 Tue Jul 29 01:18:08 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 915
 916         * boot-9.scm (move->fdes, dup->port): use dup->fdes, not primitive-dup.
 917         (dup->fdes): deleted, now done in C.
 918
 919 Sat Jul 26 08:00:42 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 920
 921         * boot-9.scm (setenv): new procedure, scsh compatible.
 922
 923 Sat Jul 26 21:30:10 1997  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
 924
 925         * boot-9.scm (with-fluids): New macro to go with the
 926         builtin `with-fluids*'.
 927
 928 Thu Jul 24 04:28:11 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 929
 930         * slib.scm (install-require-module): In newer versions of slib
 931         *catalog* is #f until the first access.  Therefore we call
 932         require:provided? for a random feature if *catalog* is #f.
 933
 934 Wed Jul 23 20:13:04 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 935
 936         * boot-9.scm: If using emacs interface, enable backtraces
 937         automatically.
 938
 939 Mon Jul 21 06:45:45 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
 940
 941         * boot-9.scm (dup->port, dup->inport, dup->outport, dup->fdes,
 942         dup, fdes->inport, fdes->outport, port->fdes): new procedures.
 943         (duplicate-port): was a C primitive, now it's here.
 944         (move->fdes): allow the first argument to be a file descriptor.
 945         Return the modified port or file descriptor (was unspecified.)
 946
 947 Fri Jul 11 00:13:43 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.red-bean.com>
 948
 949         Changes to compile under gnu-win32, from Marcus Daniels:
 950         * boot-9.scm (load-user-init): If HOME is unset, provide
 951         a default of /.
 952
 953         * boot-9.scm (define-public): Changed to accomodate Hobbit.
 954
 955 Tue Jun 24 00:31:47 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.red-bean.com>
 956
 957         * boot-9.scm, debug.scm, hcons.scm, lineio.scm, mapping.scm,
 958         poe.scm, slib.scm, tags.scm, threads.scm: Use normal list
 959         notation, instead of #/ notation.
 960
 961         * expect.scm (expect-strings): Pass regexp/newline flag to
 962         make-regexp.
 963
 964 Mon Jun 23 16:13:38 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.red-bean.com>
 965
 966         Fix inconsistencies in parsing of #/ style lists.
 967         * boot-9.scm (read-path-list-notation): New function.
 968         (parse-path-symbol): Deleted.  Replaced by above.
 969         Plug in read-path-list-notation as the parser for #/ lists,
 970         instead of the anonymous lambda form calling parse-path-symbol.
 971         (Thanks to Maurizio Vitale.)
 972
 973         * boot-9.scm (make-list): Remove the definition of this function
 974         from the (ice-9 common-list) module; make the `init' argument
 975         optional in the scm module's definition, to match the deleted
 976         definition.  Harmony reigneth?  (Thanks to Bernard URBAN.)
 977
 978 Sun Jun 22 18:33:17 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.red-bean.com>
 979
 980         Try to detect when people are using one version of libguile and a
 981         different version of ice-9.  People have been skewing things and
 982         sending in bug reports.
 983         * version.scm.in: New file, which the configure script munges to
 984         produce version.scm, which contains the ice-9 config stamp.
 985         * boot-9.scm: Compare the libguile and ice-9 config stamps;
 986         display a warning if the two are different.
 987         * Makefile.am: Install version.scm, but don't distribute it.
 988         Distribute version.scm.in, but don't install it.
 989         * Makefile.in: Regenerated.
 990
 991 Thu Jun 19 21:01:16 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.red-bean.com>
 992
 993         * slib.scm (slib:warn): Alias for WARN function.
 994
 995 Fri Jun 13 00:32:04 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.red-bean.com>
 996
 997         * boot-9.scm (struct-printer): Fix off-by-one error in range
 998         check.  Correctly check for struct printer tag.
 999
1000         * expect.scm: Turn this into a module, (ice-9 expect).
1001         (expect-port, expect-timeout, expect-timeout-proc,
1002         expect-eof-proc, expect-char-proc, expect, expect-strings,
1003         expect-select): Make these public definitions.
1004         (expect-strings): Use make-regexp and regexp-exec, instead of
1005         regcomp and regexec.  We've omitted the REG_NEWLINE flag; hope
1006         that's okay.
1007
1008         * boot-9.scm (with-regexp-parts): Comment this out.  It has no
1009         users in the core, and relies on mildly hairy details of the old
1010         regexp interface.
1011
1012         * test.scm: Re-enable tests asserting that '() is true, and not a
1013         boolean.  This stuff has been true for a while.
1014
1015         * boot-9.scm (ipow-by-squaring, butlast): Fix uses of outdated
1016         function names.
1017
1018         * boot-9.scm (with-excursion-getter-and-setter, q-rear): Doc
1019         fixes.
1020
1021 Wed Jun 11 00:31:40 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.red-bean.com>
1022
1023         * Makefile.in: Regenerated after xtra_PLUGIN_guile_libs change in
1024         ../configure.in.
1025
1026 Fri Jun  6 14:37:18 1997  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1027
1028         * boot-9.scm (struct-printer): Bugfix: Check the layout of the
1029         vtable and not the one of the struct.
1030
1031 Wed Jun  4 23:27:16 1997  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1032
1033         * boot-9.scm (struct-layout, %struct-printer-tag, struct-printer,
1034         make-struct-printer, set-struct-printer-in-vtable!): New bindings
1035         to support printing of structures.
1036         (record-type-vtable, make-record-type): Add slot to hold printing
1037         function and initialize it with something appropriate.  Removed
1038         commented out printing code.
1039         (record-type-name, record-type-fields): Adjusted slot offsets.
1040         (%print-module): Reduce argument list to "mod" and "port".
1041
1042 Tue Jun  3 17:04:18 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
1043
1044         * slib.scm (identity): New function, used by SLIB.
1045
1046 Sat May 31 18:57:12 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1047
1048         * boot-9.scm: signal-handler, alarm-thunk: removed.
1049         don't define ticks-interrupt etc.
1050         top-repl: install signal handlers for SIGINT, SIGFPE, SIGSEGV, SIGBUS
1051         during call to scm-style-repl.
1052
1053 Fri May 30 18:08:10 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1054
1055         * slib.scm (slib:load): Use primitive-load-path instead of
1056         basic-load.  This is probably wrong, but hopefully the entire
1057         source access system will be revised soon anyway, and this will
1058         make require behave more like Emacs Lisp's require.  If this
1059         breaks something, please let me know.  Maybe this is real dumb.
1060
1061 Thu May 29 02:36:48 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1062
1063         * regex.scm: Add a module declaration.  Use DEFINE-PUBLIC everywhere.
1064         * boot-9.scm: If the `regex' feature is present, use the module
1065         (ice-9 regex).
1066
1067 Tue May 27 22:48:14 1997  Tim Pierce  <twp@twp.tezcat.com>
1068
1069         * regex.scm: New file.
1070         * Makefile.am (subpkgdata_DATA): Add regex.scm.
1071         * Makefile.in: Regenerated.
1072
1073 Mon May 26 17:24:48 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
1074
1075         * COPYING, boot-9.scm, debug.scm, emacs.scm, expect.scm, gtcl.scm,
1076         gwish.scm, hcons.scm, lineio.scm, mapping.scm, nonblocking.scm,
1077         oldprint.scm, poe.scm, r4rs.scm, source.scm, tags.scm, test.scm,
1078         threads.scm: New address for FSF.
1079
1080 Fri May 16 04:09:45 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1081
1082         * debug.scm: Update copyright years; this file has been worked on
1083         in 1997.
1084
1085 Thu May 15 07:56:08 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1086
1087         * expect.scm: use gettimeofday instead of get-internal-real-time
1088         and use a floating point timeout when calling select.  Untested,
1089         since the regex library is currently AWOL.
1090
1091 Wed May 14 21:00:30 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1092
1093         * boot-9.scm (eval-string): Function deleted; it was already
1094         implemented in C, so there's no point in making a divergable copy
1095         here.
1096
1097 Tue May 13 16:40:06 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1098
1099         * Makefile.in: Regenerated, using automake-1.1p.
1100
1101 Tue May 13 16:40:06 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1102
1103         * Makefile.in: Regenerated, using automake-1.1p.
1104
1105 Tue May 13 02:48:49 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1106
1107         * boot-9.scm (error-catching-loop): don't read a line from
1108         current input when quit is encountered, the previous change
1109         fixes this too.
1110
1111 Mon May 12 19:00:21 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1112
1113         * boot-9.scm (scm-style-repl): After reading an expression,
1114         consume any trailing newline (perhaps preceded by whitespace), to
1115         avoid screwing up GDB.  More detail in comments.
1116
1117 Mon May  5 13:18:38 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1118
1119         * Makefile.am (ETAGS_ARGS): New variable, since we're not treating
1120         the Scheme code like code yet.
1121         * Makefile.in: Resrac,husrched.
1122
1123 Wed Apr 30 15:25:15 1997  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1124
1125         * boot-9.scm (link-dynamic-module): Do not catch errors from
1126         dynamic-link and dynamic-call.  When the shared library exists it
1127         is now assumed to be suitable for a dynamic C module.
1128
1129 Fri Apr 25 21:21:35 1997  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1130
1131         * boot-9.scm (process-use-modules): New function to support the
1132         use-modules macro
1133         (use-modules): throw an error iff one of the requested modules
1134         can't be found.
1135
1136 Tue Apr 29 06:54:46 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1137
1138         * boot-9.scm: don't define timer-thunk or gc-thunk.
1139
1140 Sun Apr 27 17:56:09 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1141
1142         * aclocal.m4: Removed; unnecessary, given changes of Apr 24.
1143
1144         * Makefile.am (subpkgdatadir): Use "ice-9" instead of "@module@";
1145         we're not using AM_INIT_GUILE_MODULE any more.
1146         * Makefile.in: Regeneratitetedrerd.
1147
1148 Thu Apr 24 01:33:33 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1149
1150         Get 'make dist' to work again.
1151         * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove PLUGIN files.
1152         * Makefile.in: Regenerated, like two tons of fleas.
1153
1154         Changes for reduced Guile distribution: one configure script,
1155         no plugins.
1156         * configure.in, configure: Removed.
1157         * Makefile.in: Regenerated.
1158
1159 Sat Apr 19 08:03:50 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1160
1161         * boot-9.scm (eval-string, command-line, load-user-init): New
1162         functions.
1163
1164 Sat Apr 12 08:27:05 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1165
1166         * boot-9.scm (log10): defined.
1167
1168 Tue Apr  1 17:46:49 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1169
1170         * expect.scm (expect-select): correct the millisecond timeout
1171         arithmetic (from Marko.Kohtala@ntc.nokia.com).
1172
1173 Mon Mar 31 03:23:19 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1174
1175         * boot-9.scm (open-input-pipe, open-output-pipe): defined here
1176         instead of in libguile.
1177         (tm:sec etc.) new accessors for broken-down time.
1178         (set-tm:sec etc.) new setters for broken-down time.
1179
1180 Thu Mar 27 05:06:00 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1181
1182         * boot-9.scm (netent:addrtype, servent:port): added missing
1183         procedures.
1184         (netent:net, servent:proto): repaired.
1185         (utsname:sysname etc.): new accessors for uname.
1186
1187 Tue Mar 25 03:04:03 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1188
1189         * boot-9.scm (sockaddr:fam, sockaddr:path, sockaddr:addr,
1190         sockaddr:port): new functions.
1191
1192 Wed Mar 19 04:50:34 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1193
1194         * boot-9.scm: define accessor procedures for the objects returned
1195         by getpw, getgr, gethost, getnet, getproto, getserv (e.g.,
1196         passwd:name, where the first component is the name of the C structure
1197         and the second is the unprefixed C member name.)
1198
1199 Tue Mar 18 18:39:31 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1200
1201         * boot-9.scm (setpwent, setgrent, sethostent, setnetent, setprotoent,
1202         setservent): no longer take an argument, it was bogus.
1203
1204 Thu Mar 13 00:13:41 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1205
1206         * boot-9.scm (scm-error): deleted, reimplemented in C.
1207
1208 Mon Mar 10 15:48:31 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
1209
1210         * boot-9.scm (process-define-module): Modified to handle both
1211         keywords and symbols.
1212
1213 Sat Mar  8 04:32:44 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1214
1215         * slib.scm: update read usage.
1216
1217         * r4rs.scm: update primitive-load usage.
1218         Don't define read-sharp.
1219
1220         * boot-9.scm: use read-hash-extend to install extra read syntax.
1221         (read-sharp): removed.
1222         Adjust usage of primitive-load-path, read, which no longer take
1223         case_i or read-sharp arguments.
1224
1225 Sat Mar  8 00:07:54 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
1226
1227         * boot-9.scm: Added loading of session support module.
1228
1229         * debug.scm: Removed `display-application'.  (Replaced by
1230         primitive procedure.)
1231
1232         * boot-9.scm (beautify-user-module!): Don't add the root module
1233         interface to the end of the use-list of the root module.
1234
1235 Thu Mar  6 07:26:34 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1236
1237         * boot-9.scm: repl-quit, repl-abort: obsolete variables deleted.
1238
1239 Wed Mar  5 20:30:24 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1240
1241         * boot-9.scm: check use-emacs-interface for emacs support.
1242
1243 Sun Mar  2 19:47:14 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1244
1245         * boot-9.scm (scm-style-repl): call repl-report-start-timing if
1246         read gets EOF.
1247         * (exit): alias for quit.
1248
1249 Sun Mar  2 05:25:11 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1250
1251         * boot-9.scm (error-catching-loop thunk): use a status variable to
1252         return the quit args.
1253         (scm-style-repl): call -quit, passing return value from
1254         error-catching-repl.  Make -quit return its args.
1255         stand-alone-repl: comment out, since it seems unused.
1256
1257         (error-catching-loop thunk): discard trailing junk after a (quit).
1258
1259 Sat Mar  1 15:24:39 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
1260
1261         * boot-9.scm: Removed the old printer code.
1262
1263         * r4rs.scm (apply, call-with-current-continuation): Added comment
1264         explaining why apply and call/cc need to be closures.
1265
1266         * boot-9.scm (apply, call-with-current-continuation): Bugfix:
1267         Removed. These definitions are already present in r4rs.scm.
1268
1269         * debug.scm (trace-entry, trace-exit): Check that we're on a repl
1270         stack before printing traced frames; Re-enable trace flag at end
1271         of handlers.
1272
1273 Sat Mar  1 00:10:38 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
1274
1275         * debug.scm: Add hook for reset of trace level at abort.
1276
1277         * boot-9.scm (run-hooks): New procedure.
1278         (add-hooks!): New macro.
1279         Change hooks to use these functions.
1280
1281         * debug.scm: *Warning* This feature is a bit premature.  I add
1282         it anyway because 1. it is very useful, and, 2. you can start
1283         making it less premature by complaining to me and by modifying
1284         the source! :-)
1285         (trace): Given one or more procedure objects, trace each one.
1286         Given no arguments, show all traced procedures.
1287         (untrace): Given one or more procedure objects, untrace each one.
1288         Given no arguments, untrace all traced procedures.  The tracing in
1289         Guile have an advantage to most other systems: We don't create new
1290         procedure objects, but mark the procedure objects themselves.
1291         This means that also anonymous and internal procedures can be
1292         traced.
1293
1294         * boot-9.scm (error-catching-loop): Added handling of apply-frame
1295         and exit-frame exceptions.
1296
1297         * boot-9.scm (assert-repl-prompt, the-prompt-string): Removed.
1298         (set-repl-prompt!): Setter for repl prompt.
1299         (scm-style-repl): If prompt is #f, don't prompt; if prompt is a
1300         string, display it; if prompt is a thunk, call it and display its
1301         result; otherwise display "> ".
1302         (Change suggested by Roland Orre <orre@nada.kth.se>.)
1303
1304         * r4rs.scm (%load-verbosely): Reverted change to
1305         `module-defined?', since the module system isn't bootstrapped when
1306         we load r4rs.scm.  This is just a temporary fix to make the
1307         repository version runnable.
1308
1309 Thu Feb 27 23:25:47 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
1310
1311         * boot-9.scm: Removed the enabling of debug evaluator and
1312         recording of source code positions.  This was placed there for our
1313         convenience, but it has already sneaked into the distribution
1314         once... so we'd better add this in our local copies instead when
1315         we need it.  (These options are normally enabled at the end of
1316         boot-9.scm when loading the debug module.)
1317
1318 Thu Feb 27 16:04:45 1997  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1319
1320         * boot-9.scm (module-defined?): New function.
1321         (macroexpand-1, macroexpand): Use local-ref instead of defined?
1322         and eval.
1323         * r4rs.scm (%load-verbosely): Use "module-defined?" instead of
1324         "defined?".
1325         * slib.scm (defined?): New function to take the place of the
1326         builtin "defined?".  It allways examines the slib module.
1327
1328 Mon Feb 24 21:46:15 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
1329
1330         * configure.in: Added AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
1331
1332 Sat Feb 15 04:51:20 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1333
1334         * boot-9.scm (read-sharp): define directly, don't go through a
1335         %read-sharp layer.
1336
1337 Tue Feb 11 08:45:48 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1338
1339         * boot-9.scm (uniform-vector-set!): use uniform-array-set1!, not
1340         uniform-vector-set1! which doesn't exist.
1341
1342 Mon Feb 10 03:01:48 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@kenneth>
1343
1344         * boot-9.scm (backtrace): Removed.  (A C version now exists in
1345         backtrace.c.)
1346
1347 Fri Jan 24 06:05:36 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1348
1349         * boot-9.scm (read-line!, read-delimited!, read-delimited,
1350         read-line): new procedures, see libguile/ChangeLog.
1351
1352 Thu Jan 16 17:07:03 1997  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1353
1354         Added dynamic linking of modules. See libguile/DYNAMIC-LINKING.
1355
1356         * boot-9.scm (split-c-module-name, convert-c-registered-modules,
1357         init-dynamic-module, dynamic-maybe-call,
1358         find-and-link-dynamic-module, link-dynamic-module,
1359         try-module-dynamic-link, registered-modules): New definitions for
1360         dynamic linking of modules.
1361         (resolve-module): Try to dynamically link the requested module
1362         after failing to load it as Scheme code.
1363
1364 Wed Jan  8 05:50:14 1997  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1365
1366         * boot-9.scm (getservbyport, getservbyname): remove stray %.
1367
1368 Tue Jan  7 20:02:24 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1369
1370         * boot-9.scm (and=>): Rename THUNK argument to PROCEDURE, 'cos
1371         that's what it is.
1372
1373         * lineio.scm (make-line-buffering-input-port): Properly test for
1374         the case of an empty buffer list.  The old code assumed that '()
1375         was false.
1376
1377 Mon Jan  6 01:13:53 1997  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@kenneth>
1378
1379         * boot-9.scm (use-modules): New macro (from Marius Vollmer).
1380         (use-modules <module name> ...) Put the the modules named by
1381         <module name> ... on the use list of the current module.
1382
1383 Sun Jan  5 15:52:59 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1384
1385         * boot-9.scm (error-catching-loop): Remove message saying that
1386         typing "$" will put you in the debugger.  This isn't implemented
1387         yet.
1388
1389 Sun Dec 22 23:27:25 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1390
1391         * boot-9.scm (delq-all!): Function deleted; delq!'s semantics have
1392         been fixed, so this function is superfluous.
1393         (transform-usage-lambda): Use delq!, not delq-all!.
1394
1395 Tue Dec 17 20:36:45 1996  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1396
1397         * boot-9.scm (resolve-module): New optional parameter that
1398         controls whether autoloading is attempted or not. Default is #t.
1399         (process-define-module): Don't autoload the defined module.
1400         (try-module-autoload): Don't autoload the directory modules.
1401
1402         * boot-9.scm (process-define-module): Ensure that the-scm-module
1403         is last in the `uses' list to allow shadowing builtin
1404         bindings. All :use-module options are added in the order they
1405         appear in the arguments but before anything already on the list
1406         (such as the-scm-module).
1407
1408 Wed Dec 11 21:06:05 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1409
1410         * slib.scm (slib-parent-dir): throw error if #f returned from
1411         %search-load-path.
1412
1413 Sat Nov 30 23:57:28 1996  Tom Tromey  <tromey@cygnus.com>
1414
1415         * PLUGIN/greet, PLUGIN/split.sed, PLUGIN/this.configure: Removed.
1416         * Makefile.am, aclocal.m4: New files.
1417         * configure.in: Updated for Automake.
1418
1419 Wed Nov 27 14:16:14 1996  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1420
1421         * boot-9.scm (macroexpand-1, macroexpand), slib.scm
1422         (slib:features), r4rs.scm (%load-verbosely): "defined?" is now a
1423         function, use it accordingly.
1424
1425 Thu Nov 21 11:12:10 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1426
1427         It's an "eval closure", not an "eval thunk."  A thunk is a
1428         function of no arguments.
1429         * boot-9.scm (module-type): Rename module field.
1430         (make-module, eval-in-module, make-root-module,
1431         set-current-module): Uses changed.
1432         (module-eval-closure, set-module-eval-closure!,
1433         root-module-closure): Renamed from module-eval-thunk,
1434         set-module-eval-thunk!, root-module-thunk.
1435         (set-current-module): Change uses of *top-level-lookup-thunk* to
1436         *top-level-eval-closure*.
1437
1438 Wed Nov 20 14:45:27 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
1439
1440         * slib.scm (slib-parent-dir): Use string-length, not length.
1441         (Thanks to Bernard Urban.)
1442
1443 Sat Nov  2 20:00:42 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
1444
1445         * boot-9.scm: The debugging evaluator and recording of positions
1446         aren't enabled by default any longer (they are switched on in
1447         debug.scm).  But during development we want to have them also
1448         *inside* boot-9.scm.  Therefore, two lines are added at the
1449         beginning of boot-9.scm to enable these.
1450
1451         Call `provide' so that `records' are included among the
1452         `*features*'.
1453
1454         The scheme for saving the stack has been adjusted: save-stack is
1455         now commonly available for saving the stack.  Calling `save-stack'
1456         sets a flag `stack-saved?' which prevents overwriting the stack.
1457         `stack-saved?' is reset at `abort'.
1458
1459         Spelling correction: seperate --> separate.
1460
1461         Removed `:'s that had creeped into some comments.
1462
1463         The repl now doesn't print #<unspecified> results any longer
1464         If the user wants to see this, he can do
1465         (assert-repl-print-unspecified #t) in his startup file.
1466
1467         The user now gets a friendly message instead of a backtrace at
1468         error.
1469
1470         Added `before-read-hook'.
1471
1472         Load module (ice-9 emacs) if option `-e' was specified.
1473
1474         (provide): New function.
1475
1476         (error): Save stack at entry, so that Guile entrails won't show up
1477         in backtraces.
1478
1479         (backtrace): New function.
1480
1481         (save-stack): Can now take arbitrary number of stack narrowing
1482         specifier pairs.  The first specifier in a pair controls inner
1483         border, the second the outer border.  A number means cut that
1484         number of frames, a procedure object means cut until that object
1485         is found in operator position in a frame.
1486
1487         * debug.scm: Enable debugging evaluator and recording of positions
1488         by default.
1489
1490         * slib.scm (slib:load): Adapt to the new behavior of
1491         primitive-load: It doesn't any longer try both with and without
1492         ".scm" extension.  (We don't want to use %search-load-path here.)
1493
1494         (implementation-vicinity): New function.  slib requires it
1495
1496         (library-vicinity): Updated.
1497
1498         Load "require.scm" in the library-vicinity.
1499
1500         (install-require-vicinity, install-require-module): New functions.
1501
1502 Mon Oct 28 17:56:29 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1503
1504         * boot-9.scm (load-from-path): New function.
1505
1506         * boot-9.scm (try-load, basic-try-load, try-load-module,
1507         try-load): Deleted.  I don't think they're being used.
1508
1509         * Makefile.in (scm_files): Add r4rs.scm and test.scm to this list,
1510         so they'll get distributed.
1511
1512         Get Guile to be a little less chatty by default.  The new user
1513         should see as little clutter as possible.
1514         * r4rs.scm (%load-verbosely): Make this #f by default.
1515         * boot-9.scm (scm-repl-verbose): Make this #f by default.
1516         (scm-style-repl): Don't run 'pk' on the value passed to quit.
1517
1518         * r4rs.scm: New file.
1519         * boot-9.scm: Load r4rs.scm, first thing.
1520         (OPEN_READ, OPEN_WRITE, OPEN_BOTH, *null-device*, open-input-file,
1521         open-output-file, open-io-file, close-input-port,
1522         close-output-port, close-io-port, call-with-input-file,
1523         call-with-output-file, with-input-from-port, with-output-to-port,
1524         with-error-to-port, with-input-from-file, with-output-to-file,
1525         with-error-to-file, with-input-from-string, with-output-to-string,
1526         with-error-to-string, the-eof-object): Definitions moved to
1527         r4rs.scm.  Not all of them are R4RS, but those that are use those
1528         that are not.
1529         (load, %load-verbosely, %load-announce): Moved, along with code to
1530         set %load-hook, to r4rs.scm.
1531
1532         * test.scm: New file.
1533
1534         * boot-9.scm (integer?): Definition deleted, in favor of the one
1535         present in libguile (which used to be called int?).  I have no
1536         idea why integer? didn't just call int? to begin with.
1537
1538         * boot-9.scm (<, <=, =, >, >=): Definitions in terms of <?, <=?,
1539         =?, >?, and >=? deleted; they're defined that way by libguile now.
1540
1541         * boot-9.scm (load): Simplified; primitive-load does most of this
1542         work now.
1543         (%load-announce-win): Removed; no longer used.  Set %load-hook to
1544         call %load-announce.
1545
1546 Sun Oct 27 07:47:03 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1547
1548         * boot-9.scm (stat:dev, stat:ino, stat:mode, stat:nlink, stat:uid,
1549         stat:gid, stat:rdev, stat:size, stat:atime, stat:mtime,
1550         stat:ctime, stat:blksize, stat:blocks) accessor functions for stat
1551         components.
1552         (file-is-directory?): use stat:type.
1553
1554 Fri Oct 25 03:34:47 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1555
1556         * boot-9.scm (%read-sharp): Don't recognize the `#!' syntax here;
1557         that's now taken care of in libguile, and in a way compatible with
1558         SCSH (which this isn't).
1559
1560 Mon Oct 21 18:52:36 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
1561
1562         * boot-9.scm: Formatting tweaks.
1563
1564 Fri Oct 18 01:03:08 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
1565
1566         * boot-9.scm (handle-system-error): Added hooks before-error-hook,
1567         after-error-hook, before-backtrace-hook and after-backtrace-hook
1568         to the error handler.  E.g.: fancy emacs support could plug into
1569         these.
1570         (save-stack): New function.  The stack is now made differently
1571         depending on the stack id.  (The motivation is to make a better
1572         choice regarding what stack frames to present to the user.)
1573         (error-catching-loop): Stack handling code moved outside into
1574         save-stack.
1575
1576 Thu Oct 17 20:33:08 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1577
1578         * Makefile.in (scm_files): add expect.scm.
1579
1580         * expect.scm: new file ported from guile-iii.
1581
1582         * boot-9.scm: remove handle-system-error, after moving the code into
1583         error-catching-loop.
1584         Don't set 'throw-handler-default property on error keys.
1585         Just interpret (almost) any throw with 4 args as an error throw.
1586         Delete some try-load stuff that was already commented out.
1587
1588         Second thoughts, keep handle-system-error but call it from
1589         error-catching-loop.
1590
1591 Tue Oct 15 17:07:20 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1592
1593         * boot-9.scm: Doc fixes.
1594         (make-module): Rework for readability.
1595         (make-root-module, make-scm-module): USES argument to make-module
1596         should be '(), not #f.
1597
1598         * boot-9.scm (try-load): %sys-load-path has been renamed to
1599         primitive-load-path; adjust call here.
1600
1601 Tue Oct 15 14:25:01 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@woody.nada.kth.se>
1602
1603         * boot-9.scm (signal-handler): Bugfix: Moved the recording of
1604         the stack to the correct place: when it is decided to generate an
1605         error-signal.
1606
1607 Mon Oct 14 22:20:30 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@woody.nada.kth.se>
1608
1609         * boot-9.scm (error-catching-loop, signal-handler,
1610         handle-system-error): Backtracing now works for signals aswell;
1611         Backtracing mechanism can now identify the stack root created by
1612         start-stack so that the user isn't exposed to system stack frames.
1613
1614 Mon Oct 14 06:05:42 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@woody.nada.kth.se>
1615
1616         * Makefile.in: Added threads.scm.
1617
1618 Mon Oct 14 04:21:51 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@woody.nada.kth.se>
1619
1620         * debug.scm (make-enable, make-disable): Simplified.
1621
1622         * boot-9.scm: Renamed %%throw-handler-default -->
1623         throw-handler-default.
1624         ((handle-system-error key . arg-list)): Changed the way errors are
1625         reported.
1626         ((scm-style-repl)): Wrap up the call to eval in a start-stack
1627         acro.
1628         ((error-catching-loop thunk)): Introduce a lazy-catch into
1629         error-catching-loop so that the stack can be captured.
1630
1631 Thu Oct 10 22:27:32 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
1632
1633         * mapping.scm (hash-table-mapping): Explicitly request that
1634         make-vector fill new vectors with '(); this will make it easier to
1635         port Guile Scheme code to other Schemes.
1636         * boot-9.scm (make-print-style, make-print-table): Same.
1637
1638 Sun Oct  6 03:54:59 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1639
1640         * boot-9.scm (load): rewritten again.
1641         Append "." to the default %load-path.
1642         (feature?): new function: checks for a symbol in the features list.
1643         (module-local-variable): remove apparently useless (caddr (list m v
1644         ...))
1645         (%load-announce): minor formatting change.
1646         (file-exists?): use access? if posix is featured.
1647         (file-is-directory?): use stat if i/o-extensions is featured.
1648         (try-module-autoload module-name): use file-exists? before
1649         file-is-directory?
1650
1651 Sat Oct  5 18:54:03 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@kenneth>
1652
1653         * boot-9.scm: Added conditional loading of threads.scm.
1654
1655         * threads.scm: New file.  Modified from the Cygnus-r0.3
1656         distribution.
1657
1658         * boot-9.scm (error-catching-loop): Added handling of key
1659         `switch-repl'.
1660
1661         * boot-9.scm: Name change %%bad-throw --> bad-throw.
1662
1663 Wed Oct  2 23:38:44 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
1664
1665         * boot-9.scm (make-record-type, record-constructor): Don't assume
1666         the empty list is false when parsing the argument list.
1667
1668 Mon Sep 30 22:15:50 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
1669
1670         * boot-9.scm (signal-handler): Clean up logic.
1671
1672         * boot-9.scm (load): Assume %load-path is always bound.
1673
1674 Sat Sep 28 00:15:37 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1675
1676         * boot-9.scm (error): replace another throw with scm-error.  Throw
1677         to 'misc-error instead of 'error (no need to distinguish these.)
1678         Don't set up 'error as a key.
1679         Set up regex-error as a key, if regex is available.
1680         (signal-handler): use scm-error, not throw.
1681
1682         (%try-load, try-load-with-path, %load, load-with-path,
1683         basic-try-load-with-path, basic-load-with-path,
1684         try-load-module-with-path,load-module-with-path): deleted, since
1685         they seem redundant.
1686         (try-load): define using %try-load, not try-load-with-path.
1687         (load): rewritten.  load tries to open the file directly and
1688         with a .scm extension before searching the library directories
1689         (should "." be added to %load-path?  then load could still open
1690         directly files starting with "/").
1691         (try-module-autoload): use load, not load-with-path.
1692         (%load-indent): deleted, -2 was causing errors.
1693
1694         (%read-sharp): use port-line, not line-number.
1695
1696 Fri Sep 27 16:23:51 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
1697
1698         * boot-9.scm (%%bad-throw): Delete definition. 1) It's very
1699         straightforward to provide the equivalent functionality using
1700         (catch #t ...), so there's no need for the extra complexity.  2)
1701         Outside the context of a read-eval-print loop (which Guile should
1702         not require) it's not clear we should do anything more complicated
1703         than print an error and exit; the user or REPL can establish
1704         something better if it wants.  3) In that case, it's much more
1705         robust to just do it in the C code.
1706
1707 Tue Sep 24 06:53:04 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1708
1709         * boot-9.scm (%try-load): define using primitive-load.  Previously
1710         %try-load itself was the primitive.
1711         (load-with-path): use scm-error instead of %load-announce-lossage.
1712         Errors are thrown to 'misc-error instead of 'could-not-load.
1713         (%load-announce-lossage): deleted.
1714
1715 Mon Sep 23 00:16:31 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@kenneth>
1716
1717         * boot-9.scm (warn, scm-style-repl): Use C printer instead of `print'.
1718         (make-record-type type-name fields): Temporarily remove support
1719         for printing of records (not possible yet with C printer).
1720
1721 Fri Sep 20 00:24:27 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1722
1723         * boot-9.scm (file-exists?, file-is-directory): catch only
1724         system-error, not every kind of error.
1725         (scm-error): new procedure.
1726
1727 Thu Sep 19 16:02:46 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
1728
1729         * boot-9.scm: Formatting tweaks.
1730
1731 Wed Sep 18 09:07:37 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1732
1733         * boot-9.scm (%%handle-system-error key): remove the code for
1734         SCM-style errors.  handle the case that an unexpected number
1735         of args are supplied.
1736         (%%system-errors): removed.
1737         (error): redefine using a throw with key and 4 args.
1738         ('error): associate 'error, 'error-signal keys with
1739         %%handle-system-error.
1740         (%%default-error-handler): removed.
1741         (signal-handler): throw with 4 args and use the error-signal key.
1742         Create an error message instead of using numerical codes.
1743         (%%bad-throw): call error instead of throw if key not found.
1744
1745 Tue Sep 17 04:11:28 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1746
1747         * boot-9.scm: initialize new error keys (see libguile/ChangeLog).
1748         (%%handle-system-error key): check subr is not #f before printing.
1749         Recognize %s (embed an argument using "display") and
1750         %S (embed an argument using "write").
1751
1752 Sun Sep 15 03:55:35 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1753
1754         * boot-9.scm (%%handle-system-error key): set args and rest to
1755         the empty list if they are #f.
1756         Initialize out-of-range as an error key.
1757
1758 Sat Sep 14 03:41:15 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1759
1760         * PLUGIN/REQ: remove the "ice-9 lgh" line which causes a cycle.
1761
1762         * boot-9.scm: remove leading %% from references to '%%system-error.
1763         (%%handle-system-error): don't pass all the thrown arguments when
1764         aborting, just the key and subr.
1765         Remove the code to "Install default handlers for built-in errors."
1766         Remove the definition of the syserror procedure.
1767         Associate 'numerical-overflow with default handler.
1768
1769 Fri Sep 13 04:58:11 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@woody.nada.kth.se>
1770
1771         * boot-9.scm: Name change: value-ref --> local-ref
1772         resolved-ref --> nested-ref  Motivation: conformance to the other
1773         dictionary operators: list-ref operates on list, vector-ref
1774         operates on vector, nested-ref operates on nested namespace,
1775         local-ref operates on the local nested namespace.
1776
1777 Sat Sep  7 06:44:47 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1778
1779         * boot-9.scm (%%handle-system-error): recognise errors thrown
1780         by lgh-error (fill-message etc.)
1781         (fill-message): check first whether args is null.
1782         (fill-message): bug fix and check that args is a list.
1783
1784 Thu Sep  5 11:33:41 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1785
1786         * boot-9.scm: %load-path is initialized in C code now.
1787         (implementation-vicinity, parse-path): Deleted, along with code to
1788         initialize %load-path.
1789
1790         * boot-9.scm (in-vicinity): If the vicinity doesn't end with a
1791         "/", use one to separate it from the file.
1792
1793 Thu Aug 29 23:05:11 1996  Thomas Morgan  <tmorgan@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
1794
1795         * boot-9.scm (%load-path): Add the site directory.
1796         Add the directory named after the version number.
1797         Prepend the version number to the other directories in the path.
1798         Simplify by mapping the common prefix onto each item.
1799         * Makefile.in (datadir, pkgdatadir, pkgverdatadir, subpkgdatadir,
1800         sitedatadir): New definitions.
1801         (libparent, libdir, install_path): Replaced by above.
1802         (install): Create the above directories.
1803         Put the source files into subpkgdatadir.
1804         (uninstall): Remove the above directories.
1805
1806 Thu Aug 29 21:48:47 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
1807
1808         Don't use the PLUGIN system to gather information for the
1809         Makefile's distribution and installation targets; just put it all
1810         in the Makefile directly.
1811         * PLUGIN/this.configure (scm_files, aux_files): Remove sections
1812         for these.
1813         * configure.in: Remove code that gets and substitutes scm_files and
1814         aux_files.
1815         * Makefile.in (scm_files, aux_files): Write out the list of files
1816         here, where people expect to find them.
1817
1818 Fri Aug 23 06:44:36 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@woody.nada.kth.se>
1819
1820         * boot-9.scm: Preliminary solution: optionally load the debug
1821         module.  Changed "gls" to "guile1.0b3".
1822
1823         * debug.scm: New file: debug extensions.
1824
1825 Wed Aug 21 13:06:56 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@woody.nada.kth.se>
1826
1827         * boot-9.scm (print-vector): Renamed weak-hash-table? -->
1828         weak-key-hash-table?.  (Again!)
1829
1830 Tue Aug 20 07:31:39 1996  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@woody.nada.kth.se>
1831
1832         * boot-9.scm (print-vector, macro-table, xformer-table):
1833         Renamed weak-hash-table --> weak-key-hash-table.
1834
1835         * poe.scm (funcq-memo): Renamed weak-hash-table -->
1836         weak-key-hash-table.
1837
1838 Sat Aug  3 06:16:35 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1839
1840         * boot-9.scm (*null-device*): global constant from goonix.
1841         (move->fdes): adjusted for boolean primitive-move->fdes.  return
1842         the modified port, always set revealed count to 1 (SCSH compatible).
1843         (release-port-handle port): from goonix (SCSH compatible).
1844         (%open-file): removed.
1845         (open-input-file, open-output-file, file-exists?, file-is-directory?):
1846         modified for open-file change (does not return #f).
1847
1848 Thu Aug  1 02:52:42 1996  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
1849
1850         * Makefile.in (dist-dir): New target for new dist system.
1851         (manifest): Deleted.
1852         * PLUGIN/this.configure (aux_files): Removed PLUGIN; it's a
1853         directory, and needs special treatment in the dist-dir target.
1854
1855 Thu Aug  1 09:00:21 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1856
1857         * boot-9.scm: remove the wrappers for '%' system primitives,
1858         now that they throw errors directly.
1859         remove make-simple-wrapper and similar functions.
1860         protect a call to getenv which may now throw an exception.
1861
1862 Wed Jul 31 23:44:42 1996  Gary Houston  <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
1863
1864         * boot-9.scm (false-if-exception): new macro.
1865
1866 Fri Apr 19 13:53:08 1996  Tom Lord  <lord@beehive>
1867
1868         * The more things change...
1869
1870