[bpt/guile.git] / TODO

* Use "real" procprops.

* Add facilities for debugging Scheme programs.

The low-level debugging support is done, and we are now working on the
user interface.

* Documentation.

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

* Make it possible to link Guile and TK without using libtcl.a, by
providing Guile-based replacements for the libtcl.a functions that TK
requires.

* Make ordinary lambda functions work as callbacks for Tk;
eliminate the need for tcl-lambda.

* Translators for additional languages; in particular, Perl, Python,
TCL, Emacs Lisp, and Rexx.

* 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.
Commit	Line	Data
bfb7e839 MD	1	* Use "real" procprops.
bfb7e839 MD	2
a35cabe8 JB	3	* Add facilities for debugging Scheme programs.
a35cabe8 JB	4
f6e372ed JB	5	The low-level debugging support is done, and we are now working on the
f6e372ed JB	6	user interface.
d345f2b2 JB	7
	8	* Documentation.
	9
f6e372ed JB	10	We have a new layout for the reference manual which covers the
	11	C/Scheme interface, as well as the scheme variants. We also want a
	12	more thorough tutorial manual, but we haven't sketched that out yet.
151e0ee5 JB	13
151e0ee5 JB	14
a35cabe8 JB	15	Desired later on
a35cabe8 JB	16
57d09442	17	* Good interface to Tk
d345f2b2	18
a35cabe8 JB	19	* Make it possible to link Guile and TK without using libtcl.a, by
	20	providing Guile-based replacements for the libtcl.a functions that TK
	21	requires.
	22
	23	* Make ordinary lambda functions work as callbacks for Tk;
	24	eliminate the need for tcl-lambda.
	25
	26	* Translators for additional languages; in particular, Perl, Python,
	27	TCL, Emacs Lisp, and Rexx.
	28
a35cabe8	29	* A package for time conversions and formatting.
973e9b36 JB	30
	31	* Make GDB work with Guile
	32
	33	This would permit programmable debugging and a nice integrated GUI.
82cc1b11 MD	34
	35
	36	Low-level things
	37
	38	* Use the SCM trick of tagging environments with immediates (see m_letrec1)
	39	to convert source correctly in unmemocopy.
c5b738b5 MD	40
	41
	42	Optimizations
	43
	44	* Eliminate argument checking for closures. One way to do it is to
	45	set the cdr of application forms to an immediate representing the
	46	arity of the call. If the closure contains a corresponding
	47	immediate, these can be matched against eachother.
	48
	49	* Implement a thread-safe alternative to SCM's environment caches:
	50
	51	Add an extra argument to SCM_CEVAL: "evaluation context".
	52	Evaluation contexts contain a stack of locations.