Hello!
Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes:
> I went ahead and merged VM to master.
Great!
> Things went fine after a couple of
> manual merges, though `(procedure-property apply 'arity)' needs some
> work -- see the log for 5442b3a5989a118f2addf3190eab2e27d65e0658.
Right, that won't work if `apply' is a program. The question is: what
should we do with procedure properties? Before the VM, they could be
used both with subrs and Scheme closures. I think it would be nice if
we could extend them so that they worked transparently with programs as
well, maybe by attaching per-program procedure properties lazily. What
do you think?
> I should be happy but really I'm just tired ;) Can people please check
> this out, give it some pounding and report any errors to the list.
>
> Errors running external code modules are especially appreciated --
> existing code should still work, with very few exceptions.
The only troubles I had so far are:
- the `object-ref' limitation to 256 objects;
- `current-reader' not taken into account;
- circular references among modules (previously worked around via
autoloads) not supported---but this is a good thing, it's an
opportunity to remove kludges. :-)
I'll eventually proceed with the merge in the BDW-GC branches.
Thanks,
Ludo'.
