+Thu Jan 16 17:07:03 1997 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
+
+ Added dynamic linking of modules. See libguile/DYNAMIC-LINKING.
+
+ * boot-9.scm (split-c-module-name, convert-c-registered-modules,
+ init-dynamic-module, dynamic-maybe-call,
+ find-and-link-dynamic-module, link-dynamic-module,
+ try-module-dynamic-link, registered-modules): New definitions for
+ dynamic linking of modules.
+ (resolve-module): Try to dynamically link the requested module
+ after failing to load it as Scheme code.
+
+Wed Jan 8 05:50:14 1997 Gary Houston <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
+
+ * boot-9.scm (getservbyport, getservbyname): remove stray %.
+
+Tue Jan 7 20:02:24 1997 Jim Blandy <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
+
+ * boot-9.scm (and=>): Rename THUNK argument to PROCEDURE, 'cos
+ that's what it is.
+
+ * lineio.scm (make-line-buffering-input-port): Properly test for
+ the case of an empty buffer list. The old code assumed that '()
+ was false.
+
+Mon Jan 6 01:13:53 1997 Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@kenneth>
+
+* * boot-9.scm (use-modules): New macro (from Marius Vollmer).
+ (use-modules <module name> ...) Put the the modules named by
+ <module name> ... on the use list of the current module.
+
+Sun Jan 5 15:52:59 1997 Jim Blandy <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
+
+ * boot-9.scm (error-catching-loop): Remove message saying that
+ typing "$" will put you in the debugger. This isn't implemented
+ yet.
+
+Sun Dec 22 23:27:25 1996 Jim Blandy <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
+
+ * boot-9.scm (delq-all!): Function deleted; delq!'s semantics have
+ been fixed, so this function is superfluous.
+ (transform-usage-lambda): Use delq!, not delq-all!.
+
Tue Dec 17 20:36:45 1996 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
-* * boot-9.scm (resolve-module): New optional parameter that
+ * boot-9.scm (resolve-module): New optional parameter that
controls whether autoloading is attempted or not. Default is #t.
(process-define-module): Don't autoload the defined module.
(try-module-autoload): Don't autoload the directory modules.
-* * boot-9.scm (process-define-module): Ensure that the-scm-module
+ * boot-9.scm (process-define-module): Ensure that the-scm-module
is last in the `uses' list to allow shadowing builtin
bindings. All :use-module options are added in the order they
appear in the arguments but before anything already on the list
Sat Nov 2 20:00:42 1996 Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
-* * boot-9.scm: The debugging evaluator and recording of positions
+ * boot-9.scm: The debugging evaluator and recording of positions
aren't enabled by default any longer (they are switched on in
debug.scm). But during development we want to have them also
*inside* boot-9.scm. Therefore, two lines are added at the
Removed `:'s that had creeped into some comments.
-* The repl now doesn't print #<unspecified> results any longer
+ The repl now doesn't print #<unspecified> results any longer
If the user wants to see this, he can do
(assert-repl-print-unspecified #t) in his startup file.
-* The user now gets a friendly message instead of a backtrace at
+ The user now gets a friendly message instead of a backtrace at
error.
Added `before-read-hook'.
(backtrace): New function.
-* (save-stack): Can now take arbitrary number of stack narrowing
+ (save-stack): Can now take arbitrary number of stack narrowing
specifier pairs. The first specifier in a pair controls inner
border, the second the outer border. A number means cut that
number of frames, a procedure object means cut until that object
Set up regex-error as a key, if regex is available.
(signal-handler): use scm-error, not throw.
-* (%try-load, try-load-with-path, %load, load-with-path,
+ (%try-load, try-load-with-path, %load, load-with-path,
basic-try-load-with-path, basic-load-with-path,
try-load-module-with-path,load-module-with-path): deleted, since
they seem redundant.
(try-load): define using %try-load, not try-load-with-path.
-* (load): rewritten. load tries to open the file directly and
+ (load): rewritten. load tries to open the file directly and
with a .scm extension before searching the library directories
(should "." be added to %load-path? then load could still open
directly files starting with "/").