enabling type-specific print and relocate behavior
allowing GC to be triggered by large buffer allocations
adding hash table constructor and print function
renamed some functions
explicitly represented in an fltype_t struct, and symbolic
types are hash-consed. a lot of code is smaller and simpler
as a result. this should allow more features in less space
(both code and data) going forward.
changing \DDD and \x escape sequences to read bytes instead of
characters
re-fixing uint64 cast bug
adding Paul Hsieh's hash function, to be evaluated later
some cleanup
moving some library code around for size optimization
now using == instead of flt_equals for float comparison, mostly
for hash compatibility
better text representation of infs and nans
removing construction of low-level numeric types directly from strings
adding hash function corresponding to equal
better way to initialize builtins
moving advanced bitvector ops to separate compilation unit
rearranging hash table code so it can be specialized for different
comparison functions
one good way to bloat a piece of software is to add several
ASCII pictures of the mona lisa
that could access the current environment dynamically. It also
differed unnecessarily from common lisp set in this respect.
So now setq is a builtin special form that sets lexical or
global variables, and set is a function that sets global variables.
Rather than eliminate the power of the dynamic set, I extended it
by adding eval*, which evaluates its argument in the current
environment. The justification for this is that the interpreter
is already dynamic enough to allow it with no overhead, so the
ability might as well be exposed.
cleanup; removing some magic numbers
beginning hash tables
JeffBezanson