0.pre7.98:

[sbcl.git] / TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
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--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -4,40 +4,30 @@ for 0.7.0:
        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:
-       ** substantially rewrote DEFSTRUCT implementation to work
-               cleanly with EVAL-WHEN, not sleazily use DEFUN for 
-               structure functions, implement out-of-line structure
-               accessors as closures, reduce or eliminate non-ANSI
-               magicality of structure functions
-               *** made structure type tests work again
-               *** got rid of bogus warnings about "redefinition" of
-                       structure accessors
        ** made inlining DEFUN inside MACROLET work again
-       ** made %COMPILE set up debugging data more like the way the
-               debugger expects (and maybe even completely
-               correctly:-)
-* incompatible changes listed in NEWS:
-       ** changed debugger prompt to "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]", etc.
-       ** changed default output representation of *PRINT-ESCAPE*-ed
-               unprintable ASCII characters to #\Nul, #\Soh, etc.
-* some easy FIXMEs with high disruptive potential:
-       ** Search lists go away.
-       ** Grep for ~D and and change most of them to ~S.
 * more renaming in global external names:
-       ** used DEFINE-THE-FOO-THING and DEFFOO style consistently (and 
-               deprecated supported extensions named in the DEF-FOO
-               style, e.g. SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-ROUTINE)
        ** reserved DO-FOO-style names for iteration macros
        ** finished s/FUNCTION/FUN/
        ** s/VARIABLE/VAR/
-       ** s/TOPLEVEL/TOP-LEVEL/
+       ** s/TOP-LEVEL/TOPLEVEL/
 * global style systematization:
        ** s/#'(lambda/(lambda/
        ** four-space indentation in C
+* pending patches and bug reports that go in (or else get handled
+       somehow, rejected/logged/whatever) before 0.7.0:
+       ** AD "BUG in nested backquotes processing"
+               sbcl-devel 2001-12-21
+       ** NJF bug report "bug in COPY-READTABLE" and AD patch,
+               both sbcl-devel 2001-12-24
+       ** AD patch for other readtable functions, sbcl-devel 2001-12-24
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 for early 0.7.x:
 
+* patches postponed until after 0.7.0:
+       ** Christophe Rhodes "rough patch to fix bug 106" 2001-10-28
 * building with CLISP (or explaining why not)
+* urgent EVAL/EVAL-WHEN/%COMPILE/DEFUN/DEFSTRUCT cleanup:
+       ** fixed bug 137
 * faster bootstrapping (both make.sh and slam.sh)
        ** added mechanisms for automatically finding dead code, and
                used them to remove dead code
@@ -91,8 +81,10 @@ 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).
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-for 1.0:
+for 0.9:
 
 * refactored in preparation for moving CLOS into cold init and merging
        SB-PCL:FOO with CL:FOO (for FOO=CLASS, FOO=CLASS-OF, etc.)
@@ -137,6 +129,10 @@ for 1.0:
        between minor maintenance releases on the stable branch (but no
        promises, sorry, since I've never tried to do this before, and 
        have no idea how much of a pain this'll be)
+========================================================================
+for 1.0 (fixes of lower priority which I'd nonetheless be embarrassed
+to leave unfixed in 1.0):
+* all too many BUGS entries and FIXMEs
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 other priorities, no particular time: