0.8alpha.0.20:

[sbcl.git] / TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index d33c3e2..28e5af2 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-for late 0.7.x:
+for early 0.8.x:
 
 * test file reworking
        ** non-x86 ports now pass irrat.pure.lisp
@@ -35,12 +35,13 @@ for late 0.7.x:
 * fixups now feasible because of pre7 changes
        ** ANSIfied DECLAIM INLINE stuff (deprecating MAYBE-INLINE,
                including e.g. on the man page)
+       ** (maybe) allow INLINE of a recursive function, so that the
+               body is inlined once
 * miscellaneous simple refactoring
        * belated renaming:
                ** renamed %PRIMITIVE to %VOP
                ** A few hundred things named FN and FCN should be
-                       named FUN (but maybe not while dan_b is 
-                       working on a threads branch and drichards is
+                       named FUN (but maybe not while drichards is
                        working on a Windows port).
        * These days ANSI C has inline functions, so..
                ** redid many cpp macros as inline functions: 
@@ -53,6 +54,16 @@ for late 0.7.x:
 * Either get rid of or at least rework the fdefinition/encapsulation
        system so that (SYMBOL-FUNCTION 'FOO) is identically equal to
        (FDEFINITION 'FOO).
+* Make the system sources understandable to the system, so that
+       searching for sources doesn't error out quite so often
+       (e.g. in error handlers)
+       ** provided a location-independent way of referring to source
+               files in the target image, maybe a SYS: logical
+               pathname, and made the build system respect this.
+       ** provided a suitable readtable for reading in the source
+               files when necessary, and a mechanism for activating
+               this readtable rather than the standard one.
+
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 for 0.9:
 
@@ -119,6 +130,10 @@ other priorities, no particular time:
        personal itch): I don't want socket-level stuff so much as I
        want RPC-level or higher (CORBA?) interfaces and (possibly
        through RPC or CORBA) GUI support
+* Especially when ldb is not compiled in, the default "assertion failed"
+       behaviour in many parts of the runtime is unfriendly.  It may
+       be appropriate to look at some of these and see if they can be 
+       handled in some less abrupt way than aborting
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 important but out of scope (for WHN, anyway: Patches from other people
 are still welcome!) until after 1.0: