[Wisp-cvs] wisp/doc TODO,1.67,1.68

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	TODO 
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Cleaned up the TODO list.

Index: TODO
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RCS file: /cvsroot/wisp/wisp/doc/TODO,v
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--- TODO	4 Sep 2002 14:31:41 -0000	1.67
+++ TODO	4 Sep 2002 14:31:48 -0000	1.68
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # doc/TODO - a ToDo list for the Wisp interpreter
 
-- A compatibility module for SRFI-9 records on top of Wisp Classes.
 - A mod_wisp Apache module.
 - A nice way to write new parsers and rewrite ewisp as one such parser.
 - A replacement for make and cook.  It could be called bake :-)
@@ -8,71 +7,57 @@
 - A vi-like editor with all the Emacs power conveyed by Wisp.
 - A way for a procedure to detect whether a given optional argument was specified by the caller or the default was used.
 - A way to define arithmetical operations for non-integers.
-- A way to define ordering (and =) of non-integers or non-chars.
+- A way to define ordering (and equality) of non-integers or non-chars.
 - A way to dump and undump part of current state super-fast.
 - A yacc-like grammarer.
 - Advance the assembler so it could create real native code, thusly eliminating the need for a virtual machine.
+- All the primitives should be reentrant.
 - An M4-like expander for the structures.  Call it maxpendor.
 - An apt-able distribution site for debs.
 - An expect-like system.
 - Analog for readline.
 - Backward continuations.
-- Constructive methods.
+- Convert c8strings and vectors into records.
 - Create a better way to write regexen, without the need to double all backslashes.
 - Create a family of parsers for SGML and descendants.
 - Create a flex-like tool based on the multi-way regexen.
 - Create a miniature operating system (Wispix? Wixp? Whateverix?) with OSKit.
+- Create a way to encapsulate network sockets into ports.
 - Create snapshot output mechanism.
+- Create the |new| procedure to use announced record constructors.
+- Create the |slice| procedure as an analog to |ref|.
 - Database integration.
 - Detect local variables which always contain integers.
 - Dictionary iterator.
-- Document pregexp's different vision of what a regex match should return.
-- Document the export-macro special form.
 - Document the form precedence list.
 - Document the hidden *user-dictionary* argument to macros.
 - Document the implementation of macros.
+- Drop the class mechanism in favour of the record system.
 - Eliminate any usage of Perl whatsoever.
-- Eliminate dead code.
+- Exceptions as backward continuations.
 - Existence predicates for optional arguments.
 - Flag local variables appropriately.
-- GNU Coding Standards.
-- Get Wisp in next Debian release.
 - Get the wispers.org domain up, running and filled with content.
-- Haskell-style lazy procedure calls.
 - Imaging facilities so that png:s could be created dynamically for the Web.
 - Implement plumbing switchboards.
 - Implement record-level locking for files.
+- Implement the homogeneous integer vectors of SRFI-4.
 - Integrate record-level locking with block-files.
 - Job control.
 - Logo for Wisp.
 - Make EVM sequences atomary for gc purposes and maintain reference lists.
-- Make EVM_run(), when !home, push args to the machine stack, argc=:%ecx, and call the raw binary.
 - Make GC_collect_a_little() available to the Wisp level.
 - Make Wisp feasible as a shell.
-- Make it so that resizing vectors or strings by `just a little' doesn't necessarily mean calling GC_realloc().
-- Make local variables take precedence over macro calls.  Macros should only have precedence over global variables.
 - Make pipeline generator optionally assign a new jobid to the pipeline.
 - Make pipelines work so all the members are direct children of the caller so the caller can wait for all the members.
-- Make structure->string properly detect prefixes following a dot.
-- Make the "Invalid instruction handler pointer detected" not contain the pointer.
-- Make the EVM use the system stack instead of NS for added speed.
-- Make the assembler grinder available as a module.
-- Make the bootstrapper use assembler's output.
-- Make the builtin root element be an evmfunc by itself.
-- Make the regex compiler create evmfuncs, thusly eliminating the need for pcre.
-- Make the symbols gc'ible.
-- Make the type macro append ? to the default signal.
-- Make the with-input-from-file and with-output-to-file work on procedures which call subprocesses too.
+- Make symbols gc'ible.
 - Make translator's result available outside the actual compiler.
+- Make |structure->string| properly detect prefixes following a dot.
+- Make |with-input-from-file| and |with-output-to-file| work on procedures which call subprocesses too.
 - Module versioning.
-- Move display out of the builtin library.
-- Move everything not strictly necessary for plain Wisp itself out of the builtin directory.
 - Multiple heritance.
 - Multithreadedness.
 - Multithreading with different threads in different processes/on different hosts.
-- Optimize the compiler's local variable bookkeeping for faster translation.
-- Optimize the reader further.
-- Organize the builtin library so that locally used subroutines would be defined locally.
 - Parser for Algol, both for a60 and a68.
 - Port Dig's Link Collector to WebWisp and put it up on SourceForge as a nice example.  Maybe make it a separate public project?
 - Port Wisp to SunOS.
@@ -90,33 +75,17 @@
 - Rewrite an optimizer.  Currently, proper tail recursion is not done.
 - SRFI-14 character sets.
 - Separate vmap from map.
-- Signals as backward continuations.
 - Splicing for function calls.
 - Stacktracing for debugging purposes.
-- The drop-module procedure.
-- The prohibit-local special form.
+- The |prohibit-local| special form.
 - Think about possible implications of SRFI-10 (the #, forms).
 - Think of a way to read and write records.
 - Think on how to represent Prolog-like and Makefile-like structures by Lispian tools.
 - Timezone converter as a separate module.
+- Unix signal handling.
 - Virtual terminals.
 - What about a hierarchical filesystem-like procedure tree?
-- Wisp->C translator.
-- Wrap gdbm .
-- Write a grinder for normal Wisp code.
-- Write a parser for procedures' and macros' arguments.  It should be a cross between getopt and CL's lambda lists.
 - Write proper documentation.
-- Write the (format ...) function.
-- Write the allocated-space primitive.
-- case-lambda special form.
-- Unix signal handling.
-- All the primitives should be reentrant.
-- Create the new procedure to use announced record constructors.
-- Drop the classes mechanism in favour of the record system.
-- Create a way to encapsulate network sockets into ports.
-- Create the |slice| procedure as an analog to |ref|.
-- Think of i18n issues. The manual should be easily translatable.
-- Should wisp.texi be automatically generated from builtin.wid ?
-- Implement the homogeneous integer vectors of SRFI-4.
-- Think of formalizing policy decision archive.
-- Convert c8strings and vectors into records and make |ref| work on them.
+- Write the |allocated-space| primitive.
+- Write the |format| function.
+- |case-lambda| special form.