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2003-05-03  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.de>

	* gap-buffer.scm (point++n!, point+-n!): Use substring-move!
	instead of substring-move-left! or substring-move-right!.  Thanks
	to Kevin Ryde.

	* deprecated.scm (substring-move-left!, substring-move-right!):
	New.

	* boot-9.scm (display-usage-report): Use keyword->symbol instead
	of keyword-symbol, which doesn't exist.  Thanks to Kevin Ryde.

	* hcons.scm (hashq-cons-get-handle): Pass only the expected four
	arguments to hashx-get-handle.  Thanks to Kevin Ryde!

	* lineio.scm (make-line-buffering-input-port) Pass 0 as second
	argument to string-ref.  Thanks to Kevin Ryde!

2003-04-25  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@kvast.blakulla.net>

	* serialize.scm: New file.

2003-04-24  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	* threads.scm (n-for-each-par-map): New procedure.

2003-04-05  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.de>

	* Changed license terms to the plain LGPL thru-out.

2003-03-26  Marius Vollmer  <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>

	* deprecated.scm: New file, to collect deprecated things.
	* Makefile.am (ice9_sources): Added.

	* boot-9.scm: Load "ice-9/deprecated.scm" when appropriate.
	(try-load-module): Also try the old deprecated method, maybe.
	
2003-03-22  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.de>

	* boot-9.scm (call/cc): Added.

2003-03-20  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	* list.scm: New file.

2003-03-19  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.de>

	* format.scm (format:out-substr): Update the column counter
	correctly. This fixes the behavior of ~T (tabbing) after ~F, for
	instance.  Thanks to Matthias Koeppe!

2003-03-13  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	* session.scm (apropos): Don't look in duplicates interface.

2003-03-12  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	* boot-9.scm (duplicate-handlers): Make sure the merge-generics
	and merge-accessors handlers are available also before (oop goops)
	has been loaded.  This is so that people can put them as default
	handlers without worrying about availability.

	* slib.scm (logical:ipow-by-squaring): Removed.

	* boot-9.scm (ipow-by-squaring): Removed.
	(default-duplicate-binding-handler): Set default to
	'(replace warn-override-core warn last)

	* boot-9.scm (module-make-local-var!): Use module-add!.
	(module-primitive-add!): New function.
	(resolve-interface): Use
	(call-with-deferred-observers, module-call-observers): New
	functions.
	(module-defer-observers, module-defer-observers-mute,
	module-defer-observers-table): New variables.
	(process-define-module, process-use-modules, export, re-export):
	Use call-with-deferred-observers.
	(module-duplicates-info, set-module-duplicates-info!): Removed.
	(module-duplicates-handlers, module-duplicates-interface): New.
	(module-type): Added duplicates-handlers and
	duplicates-interface.

	* syncase.scm (eval): Mark as replacement.

	* boot-9.scm (defmacro-public): Use export-syntax instead of export.

	* slib.scm (*features*): Set the core variable instead of defining
	a local version.
	(provide, provided?): Mark as replacements.

	* boot-9.scm (beautify-user-module!): Don't install the duplicates
	handler here.
	(default-duplicate-binding-handler): Renamed from
	default-module-duplicates-handler; Removed converter.
	(process-duplicates): Lookup default duplicates handler dynamically.
	(default-duplicate-binding-procedures): New parameter.

2003-03-12  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@kvast.blakulla.net>

	* slib.scm (identity): Removed.  (Provided by core.)

2003-03-11  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	* debugger/command-loop.scm: Prefix all commands imported from
	(ice-9 debugger command-loop) with debugger:.

	* boot-9.scm (process-duplicates): Use module-import-interface.
	(module-symbol-interface): Removed.
	(resolve-interface): Process #:hide; Name custom interfaces
	appropriately.
	(module-use!, module-use-interfaces!): Remove existing interfaces
	on the use-list based on module name rather than interface
	identity so that custom interfaces truly replaces their previous
	version.

	* boot-9.scm (module-override!, make-mutable-parameter,
	lookup-duplicates-handlers, default-module-duplicates-handler):
	New functions.
	(process-duplicates): Don't call duplicates handlers for duplicate
	bindings of the same variable.
	(process-define-module): Process #:replace.
	(compile-interface-spec, resolve-interface): Process #:prefix.

	* format.scm (format): Marked as replacement.

	* threads.scm (future, future-ref): Marked as replacements.

2003-03-07  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	These changes enables checking for duplicate imported bindings.

	* boot-9.scm (process-define-module): Handle #:duplicates.
	(module-use-interfaces! process-duplicates): New functions.
	(duplicate-handlers): Dictionary of duplicate handlers.
	(module-symbol-local-binding, module-symbol-binding): Bugfix.

2003-03-04  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	* session.scm (apropos): Use hash-for-each instead of
	array-for-each.

2003-02-19  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	* boot-9.scm (make-module): Changed default size from 1021 to 31
	(since the size now adapts).
	(macro-table, xformer-table): Changed default size from 523 to 61.
	(make-module): Don't call make-hash-table with zero size.

	* Makefile.am (ice9_sources): Added weak-vector.scm.

	* weak-vector.scm: New file.

	* boot-9.scm (module-clear!): Use hash-clear!.
	(module-for-each): Use hash-for-each.
	(module-map): Use hash-map.

2003-02-11  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	* boot-9.scm (make-hash-table): Turned primitive.

2003-01-27  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	* syncase.scm (guile-macro): Strip syntactic information from
	expression before trying to treat it as a Guile macro call.
	(Thanks to Kevin Ryde.)

2003-01-24  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	* threads.scm (parallel, letpar): Rewritten.

2003-01-23  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	* threads.scm (par-mapper, n-par-map, n-par-for-each): Use
	futures.

2003-01-20  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	* occam-channel.scm (alt): New syntax.

	* psyntax.ss (self-evaluating?): Removed.  Guile now provides this
	operator as a primitive procedure.
	(build-data): Quote vectors (psyntax.ss requires this).

2003-01-19  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	* psyntax.ss (self-evaluating?): Allow procedures implanted in
	source.  (Guile uses this internally.)

2003-01-16  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	* psyntax.ss (build-data): Don't quote self-evaluating expressions
	in output.  (We normally *would* like also these expressions to be
	quoted, but until Guile's native macros and syncase cooperates
	better, it is less destructive not to quote.)
	(self-evaluating?): Removed null? (In Guile, the empty list is not
	self-evaluating).
	(sc-chi): Export chi as sc-chi.
	(external-macro): New syntax type.

	* psyntax.pp: Regenerated.

	* compile-psyntax.scm: Set expansion-eval-closure.

	* boot-9.scm (use-syntax): Return *unspecified*.

	* syncase.scm: Set expansion-eval-closure to
	the-syncase-eval-closure during booting so that variables are
	created in the correct module.
	(syncase): Set expansion-eval-closure.
	(define-syntax define-syntax-public eval-when fluid-let-syntax
	identifier-syntax let-syntax letrec-syntax syntax syntax-case
	syntax-rules with-syntax include): Removed definitions (these are
	created from within psyntax.pp).
	Enable expansion of Guile macros during a syntax-case
	transformation.

2003-01-10  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	* occam-channel.scm (make-channel): Renamed from channel.
	(make-timer): New function.

	* Makefile.am (ice9_sources): Added occam-channel.scm.

	* occam-channel.scm: New file.  Implements occam-like channels.

2002-12-28  Neil Jerram  <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>

	* boot-9.scm (module-defined-hook): New hook, run whenever a new
	module is defined.
	(process-define-module): Run this hook.

2002-12-18  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@kvast.blakulla.net>

	* threads.scm: Removed bogus definition of future-ref.

2002-12-15  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	* threads.scm (par-map, par-for-each): Reimplemented using
	joing-thread.
	(parallel): Reimplemented using futures.
	(n-par-map, n-for-each): New procedures.

2002-12-12  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>

	* optargs.scm (improper-list-copy): New.
	(parse-arglist): Use it instead of list-copy.

2002-12-09  Mikael Djurfeldt  <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>

	* threads.scm (letpar): New macro.

2002-12-08  Rob Browning  <rlb@defaultvalue.org>

	* debugger/breakpoints/Makefile.am (subpkgdatadir): VERSION ->
	GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION.

	* debugger/Makefile.am (subpkgdatadir): VERSION ->
	GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION.

	* Makefile.am (subpkgdatadir): VERSION -> GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION.

2002-12-04  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@linnaeus>

	* threads.scm (parallel): New macro.
	 (par-map, par-for-each): New procedures.

	* documentation.scm (object-documentation): Added support for
	defmacros.

2002-11-24  Dirk Herrmann  <D.Herrmann@tu-bs.de>

	* boot-9.scm (re-export-syntax):  Re-introduced after accidentally
	removing it in my patch from 2002-11-16.

2002-11-24  Dirk Herrmann  <D.Herrmann@tu-bs.de>

	Thanks to Mikael Djurfeldt for a bugreport which led to the
	following changes:

	* slib.scm (%system-define): Removed.

	(define): Changed to use define-private instead of
	%system-define.

	* boot-9.scm (define-private): Undid my changes from 2002-11-16
	until Guile supports hygienic macros.

2002-11-17  Neil Jerram  <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>

	* emacs.scm (emacs-load): Locally define `read-and-eval!', as it
	has been removed from the core.

2002-11-16  Dirk Herrmann  <D.Herrmann@tu-bs.de>

	* syncase.scm (define-syntax, eval-when, fluid-let-syntax,
	identifier-syntax, let-syntax, letrec-syntax, syntax, syntax-case,
	syntax-rules, with-syntax, include):  Changed definitions to form
	'real' macro definitions.

2002-11-16  Dirk Herrmann  <D.Herrmann@tu-bs.de>

	* boot-9.scm (define-private, export-syntax, export-syntax):
	Fixed my previous fix (blush).

2002-11-16  Dirk Herrmann  <D.Herrmann@tu-bs.de>

	* boot-9.scm (define-private, export-syntax, export-syntax):
	Changed definitions to form 'real' macro definitions.

2002-11-07  Marius Vollmer  <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>

	* format.scm (format): Use 'monitor' properly.  Not the definition
	needs to be restricted, the actual function needs to be.

2002-11-05  Neil Jerram  <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>

	* boot-9.scm (define-option-interface): Fix to "simplification"
	change below.

	* debugger/breakpoints/source.scm: Enable source property
	recording when module is loaded.
	(##): Cope with ports whose `filename' is not a string.

2002-11-04  Neil Jerram  <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>

	* boot-9.scm (define-option-interface): Simplify code-generation
	code.

	* debugger/command-loop.scm (read-and-dispatch-command): Import
	set-readline-prompt dynamically if we need to.  (Previous
	arrangement didn't work if this module was loaded before (ice-9
	readline).)

2002-11-03  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>

	* format.scm (format): Wrap a monitor around format:format since
	it is not thread-safe.

2002-10-27  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>

	* threads.scm (%thread-handler): Explicitely return '#f'.  This
	value will be returned by join-thread.

2002-10-26  Neil Jerram  <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>

	Merging debugger enhancements previously in separate
	`guile-debugger' package ...
	
	* debugger.scm: Factored out into the following constituent parts
	- see comment in file for more details.
	(*not-yet-introduced*): New (avoids repeatedly introducing the
	debugger when entering it from breakpoints).
	(debug-stack): New.
	(debug): Rewrite to use more general `debug-stack'.

	* debugger/commands.scm, debugger/command-loop.scm,
	debugger/state.scm, debugger/utils.scm: New files containing bits
	of old (ice-9 debugger), plus some rewriting and enhancements for
	breakpoint support ...

	* debugger/state.scm (state-rtd): Add flags field.
	(make-state): Extend to optionally take flags.
	(state-flags): New, accessor for flags field.
	(set-state-index!, set-stack-index!): New.
	(write-state-short): Rewritten to print out the current source
	location in a way that is more easily trackable by Emacs.
	
	* debugger/commands.scm (assert-continuable, continue, finish,
	trace-finish, step, next): New debugger commands for continuing
	execution from a breakpoint.

	* debugger/behaviour.scm, debugger/breakpoints.scm,
	debugger/breakpoints/procedural.scm,
	debugger/breakpoints/range.scm, debugger/breakpoints/source.scm,
	debugger/trap-hooks.scm, debugger/trc.scm: New files - breakpoint
	support.

	* Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Add debugger subdirectory.

	* debugger/Makefile.am, debugger/breakpoints/Makefile.am: New.
	
2002-10-21  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>

	* threads.scm (%thread-handler): Do not call unmask-signals, that
	should be unnecessary now.

2002-10-20  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@linnaeus>

	* boot-9.scm (top-repl): Look for use-emacs-interface in
	guile-user-module (should it be there?) instead of
	the-root-module.

2002-10-10  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>

	* boot-9.scm (top-repl): Use 2 as the limit when saving the stack.
	(error-catching-loop): use call-with-blocked-asyncs and
	call-with-unblocked-asyncs instead of mask-signals and
	unmask-signals.
	
2002-10-09  Neil Jerram  <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>

	* buffered-input.scm (make-buffered-input-port): Build an
	input-waiting thunk for just extended version of make-soft-port.

2002-10-04  Rob Browning  <rlb@defaultvalue.org>

	* boot-9.scm (expt): switch if sense and use negative? rather than
	>= 0.

2002-10-04  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>

	* boot-9.scm (top-repl): Use "1" instead of "%deliver-signals" to
	limit the signal stack.

2002-09-15  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>

	* boot-9.scm (feature?): Added deprecation message.

2002-09-14  Rob Browning  <rlb@defaultvalue.org>

	* boot-9.scm (sqrt): minor indentation fix.

2002-09-05  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>

	* syncase.scm: Set the module transformer of the-syncase-module so
	that we can use define-syntax.
	(define-syntax-public): New and exported.

2002-09-04  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>

	* syncase.scm (expansion-eval-closure, env->eval-closure): New.
	(sc-macro): Set the expansion-eval-closure expanding the form.
	(putprop, getprop): Use the expansion-eval-closure to find
	variables instead of the current module.

2002-07-08  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>

	* slib.scm (make-exchanger): Added.  Thanks to Clinton Ebadi!

2002-07-07  Dirk Herrmann  <D.Herrmann@tu-bs.de>

	* boot-9.scm (define-option-interface): Replaced "macro" by
	mmacro.

2002-06-01  Gary Houston  <ghouston@arglist.com>

	* boot-9.scm (file-set-position): Make third argument optional,
	for SCM compatibility.
	(file-position): simplify definition.

2002-06-01  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>

	* boot-9.scm (file-set-position): Use seek instead of fseek.

2002-05-09  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>

	* format.scm (format:out-inf-nan): New.
	(format:out-fixed, format:out-expon, format:out-general): Use it
	to print infs and nans.

	* boot-9.scm (unsetenv): New, for completeness.

2002-05-08  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>

	* format.scm (format:fn-max): Increase to 400 so ~f and ~g can
	print long real numbers with large positive and negative
	exponents.

2002-05-06  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>

	* syncase.scm: Use (ice-9 threads) so that with-mutex is defined.

2002-04-30  Thien-Thi Nguyen  <ttn@giblet.glug.org>

	* gap-buffer.scm: New file.

	* Makefile.am (ice9_sources): Add gap-buffer.scm.

2002-03-12  Rob Browning  <rlb@defaultvalue.org>

	* syncase.scm: fix bad let.
	(gensym): fix failure on non-threaded

2002-03-05  Thien-Thi Nguyen  <ttn@giblet.glug.org>

	* ftw.scm: New file.

	* Makefile.am (ice9_sources): Add ftw.scm.

2002-02-26  Thien-Thi Nguyen  <ttn@giblet.glug.org>

	* Makefile.am: Update path to pre-inst-guile automake frag.

	* boot-9.scm: Comment grammar fixes; nfc.
	Thanks to Christopher Cramer.

2002-02-24  Rob Browning  <rlb@defaultvalue.org>

	* syncase.scm (gensym): redefine locally so we can control it's
	properties.  This is in preparation for changing the future public
	gensym to produce unreadable symbols.

	* psyntax.pp: updated to reflect new syncase.scm.

2002-02-07  Thien-Thi Nguyen  <ttn@giblet.glug.org>

	* regex.scm: Add commentary; nfc.

2002-02-05  Thien-Thi Nguyen  <ttn@giblet.glug.org>

	* Makefile.am: Include $(top_srcdir)/pre-inst-guile.am.

	(psyntax.pp): Use $(preinstguile).

2002-01-14  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>

	* psyntax.ss (datum->syntax-object): Removed assertion in
	datum->syntax-object that checked if the first argument, a
	syntax-object, is an identifier.  This was a unconvenient and
	unnecessary restriction.  Thanks to Dorai Sitaram!

2002-01-12  Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>