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
fixnums still have 30 bits
moving towards making "guest functions" more opaque; their type is now
just 'builtin
pretty printing some forms better: defun, defmacro, for, label
support *print-pretty*
JeffBezanson