scsh-0.6/ps-compiler/prescheme/unused/Notes

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2003-05-01 06:21:33 -04:00
Need to check for multiple (effectively) identical closures.
node-equal?
Flatten needs to do something about shared strings and byte-vectors.
Do SET! globals need to be treated differently? Will C allow the following?
int f( int x ) { ... }
main() { f = ... }
Check what happens if a name->enumerand or enumerand->name survives loading.
CALL-WITH-VALUES needs to simplify to two calls (so that the known-call
stuff works) even when it doesn't know what the type is (because of
polymorphism; we don't resimplify when types change).
(call-with-values cont a b)
=>
(unknown-call (lambda (res:tuple)
(unknown-call cont 'tuple-args b res))
'tuple-result
a)
Need tuple-args-goto as well. The protocol stuff has to do the right thing.
When the tuple type is determined RES has to change in both places.
Actually, it can just expand into this. The type stuff will work out.
For now I am not going to allow polymorphic use of call-with-values.
All of this is much like Scheme.
Non-tail-recursive named-LETS appear to break things.
CALL-WITH-VALUES and VALUES are only allowed in call position, and the
second argument to CALL-WITH-VALUES must be a lambda form.
STOB->NODE in form.scm needs to look for substobs.
Or does flatten flatten non-shared structures?
Pointer comparisons need to be done using unsigned longs.
=> Pre-Scheme needs unsigned comparisons u=, u<, etc.
Primitives do not appear to check the argument count!
Channel library may be doable as externals, including decoding
the events.
Tail-called forms that return multiple values?
MAX and other primitives need to check number-of-args when type checking.