-Needed before release
-
* Add facilities for debugging Scheme programs.
-Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> is working on this.
+The low-level debugging support is done, and we are now working on the
+user interface.
-* Merge in the Cygnus threads package.
+* Documentation.
-Anthony Green <green@cygnus.com> is working on this,
-but he lacks time, so perhaps he could use help.
+We have a new layout for the reference manual which covers the
+C/Scheme interface, as well as the scheme variants. We also want a
+more thorough tutorial manual, but we haven't sketched that out yet.
Desired later on
+* Good interface to Tk
+
* Add a convenient facility for running a pipeline of processes
with redirections. Gary Houston <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
is working on this.
* Translators for additional languages; in particular, Perl, Python,
TCL, Emacs Lisp, and Rexx.
-* Clean up declarations of C functions to use a PROTO macro
-for conditional prototypes, instead of explicit conditionals.
-
* A package for time conversions and formatting.
+
+* Make GDB work with Guile
+
+This would permit programmable debugging and a nice integrated GUI.
+
+
+Low-level things
+
+* Use the SCM trick of tagging environments with immediates (see m_letrec1)
+ to convert source correctly in unmemocopy.
+
+
+Optimizations
+
+* Eliminate argument checking for closures. One way to do it is to
+ set the cdr of application forms to an immediate representing the
+ arity of the call. If the closure contains a corresponding
+ immediate, these can be matched against eachother.
+
+* Implement a thread-safe alternative to SCM's environment caches:
+
+ Add an extra argument to SCM_CEVAL: "evaluation context".
+ Evaluation contexts contain a stack of locations.
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