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12:35:59
Bike
beach: right now clasp doesn't refer to the sicl repo at all - just s-expressionists/Cleavir - so you're good on that front
12:57:36
beach
More tasks: CL:SYMBOL-VALUE, CL:BOUNDP, and CL:MAKUNBOUND should call functions with that name in SICL-RUN-TIME. For example, CL:SYMBOL-VALUE should close over the global value cell and the global unbound value and it should call SICL-RUN-TIME:SYMBOL-VALUE with those two arguments and the symbol name. Currently, CL:SYMBOL-VALUE passes the Clostrum environment to the equivalent run-time function.
13:00:22
beach
The AST evaluator and the HIR evaluator share some stuff like *CALL-STACK*. These modules useful only for bootstrapping, so maybe they should be located in a place that makes that fact more obvious. The structure of the call stack is shared between those two and the bootstrap backtrace inspector.
13:01:04
beach
Perhaps the bootstrap backtrace inspector can be factored so that the GUI part is usable in the production system. If so, the stack-inspection part may have to be factored out.
13:02:49
beach
There is probably code in several Test/ directories that I haven't adapted to Clostrum, so this needs to be done.
13:04:28
beach
The system SICL-EXTRINSIC-ENVIRONMENT should be eliminated. But it is used by the Test code for LOAD-TIME-VALUE hoisting.
13:06:43
beach
Since I have started using package-local nicknames, this might be a good opportunity to use more of them in various places, if for nothing else to make package prefixes shorter.
13:07:22
beach
Perhaps there should even be a SICL-wide convention. Like I started using ENV for SICL-ENVIRONMENT in the bootstrapping procedure.
13:09:26
beach
And stuff like sicl-evaluation-and-compilation and sicl-data-and-control-flow is pretty long. But then, those might not be used very much as package prefixes.
13:10:55
beach
In summary then, there are lots of tasks like that, and I would very much appreciate some help with them. I myself need to concentrate on the last phases of bootstrapping.