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--- 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 +54,34 @@ 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 suitable readtable for reading in the source
+		files when necessary, and a mechanism for activating
+		this readtable rather than the standard one.
+* Some work on conditions emitted by the system
+	** eliminated COMPILER-WARN and COMPILER-STYLE-WARN, which
+		were simply limited versions of WARN and STYLE-WARN.
+	** made STYLE-WARN parallel WARN more closely (by accepting
+		a condition type, which should be a subtype of
+		STYLE-WARNING, and initargs, as well as a format
+		string and format arguments for SIMPLE-STYLE-WARNING.
+		(WARN can also be used to signal STYLE-WARNINGs, but
+		STYLE-WARN helps to document the code)
+	** eliminated use of INHIBIT-WARNINGS by code emitted by the
+		system from user code.
+	** caused use of INHIBIT-WARNINGS to signal a STYLE-WARNING.
+	** eliminated use of INHIBIT-WARNINGS within the system
+	** deprecated INHIBIT-WARNINGS, causing its use to signal a
+		full WARNING.
+	** began work on developing a class hierarchy of conditions
+		along semantic lines.
+	** annotated conditions emitted by the system to have
+		references to documentation where applicable, so that
+		users can easily find an explanation for the
+		conditions they're seeing.
+
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 for 0.9:
 
@@ -119,6 +148,10 @@ 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: