- (help ...) is a macro that quotes everything to be user-friendly
- (help* ...) is the equivalent procedure
- When the user types just `help` or `exit`, the REPL shows a hint
that they are probably looking for `(help)` or `(exit)`.
Previously the boot image was kept in the separate file "flisp.boot".
This caused all kinds of problems, as bootstrapping is wont to do. The
biggest problem was finding a portable and convenient pathname for it.
Instead of dealing with all that stuff about how to find the file,
just store the image in a huge C string constant that goes into the
main executable. This necessitates adding a C-string hex dumper into
the Lisp system, and making build.sh slightly more complicated, but
that's a small price to pay for not having to carry a separate file
everywhere we go. Also, flmain.c is a lot simpler now and we don't
have to play around with symlinks.
This implies that OS names have changed. Unix-like OS names are now
capitalized. "macos" is now "Darwin". Windows is now all-lowecase "windows".
"win32" is gone. "win64" was not used in the original code despite a reference
to it.
Lassi Kortela