0.7.0:

[sbcl.git] / TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 9b2dc6c..05eb79d 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-for 0.7.0:
-
-* filed off the roughest edges (or, perhaps, at least hammered down the
-       protruding rusty nails and snipped off the trailing razor wire,
-       leaving some filing for later:-) from the monster
-       EVAL/EVAL-WHEN/%COMPILE/DEFUN/DEFSTRUCT cleanup:
-* more renaming (esp. for global as opposed to lexical names):
-* pending patches and bug reports that go in (or else get handled
-       somehow, rejected/logged/whatever) before 0.7.0:
-=======================================================================
 for early 0.7.x:
 
 * patches postponed until after 0.7.0:
@@ -38,7 +28,9 @@ for early 0.7.x:
        ** used %COMPILE where COMPILE-TOP-LEVEL used to be used
        ** removed now-redundant COMPILE-TOP-LEVEL and 
                FUNCTIONAL-KIND=:TOP-LEVEL stuff from the compiler
-       ** made FUNCTION-NAME logic work on closures, so that
+       ** (ideally, but perhaps too hard, given what I've discovered
+               about the godawful internals of function debug names):
+               made FUNCTION-NAME logic work on closures, so that
                various public functions like CL:PACKAGEP which
                are now implemented as closures (because
                they're structure slot accessors) won't be so
@@ -53,7 +45,12 @@ for early 0.7.x:
        ** cut-and-pasted DEF-BOOLEAN-ATTRIBUTE (maybe easier to fix
                now that EVAL-WHEN does what it should..)
        ** incomplete manual
-       ** :IGNORE-ERRORS-P cruft in stems-and-flags.lisp-expr
+       ** :IGNORE-ERRORS-P cruft in stems-and-flags.lisp-expr. (It's
+               reasonable to support this as a crutch when initially
+               bootstrapping from balky xc hosts with their own
+               idiosyncratic ideas of what merits FAILURE-P, but it's
+               embarrassing to have to use it when bootstrapping 
+               under SBCL!),
        ** weird double-loading (first in GENESIS, then in warm init)
                of src/assembly/target/*.lisp stuff, and the associated
                weirdness of the half-baked state (compiler almost but
@@ -78,8 +75,9 @@ for early 0.7.x:
        to remove dead symbols
 * made system handle stack overflow safely unless SAFETY is dominated
        by SPEED or SPACE
-* Probably get rid of or at least rework the fdefinition/encapsulation
-       system so that (SYMBOL-FUNCTION 'FOO) = (FDEFINITION 'FOO).
+* Either get rid of or at least rework the fdefinition/encapsulation
+       system so that (SYMBOL-FUNCTION 'FOO) is identically equal to
+       (FDEFINITION 'FOO).
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 for 0.9: