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		<title>Magice at 02:35, 9 May 2009</title>
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				<updated>2009-05-09T02:35:49Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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		&lt;td colspan='2' style=&quot;background-color: white; color:black;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 02:35, 9 May 2009&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;====UDP Ports====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;====UDP Ports====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;It would be nice to also be able to use UDP ports in gambit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;It would be nice to also be able to use UDP ports in gambit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;====Lazy Streams====&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Gambit currently does not seem to support lazy cons (SRFI-41). Since it has support for lazy evaluation (promise) already, an implementation of stream should be easy.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Magice</name></author>	</entry>

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		<title>Pipping: /* Support for R6RS */ note regarding licenses</title>
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				<updated>2008-08-20T00:42:22Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Support for R6RS: &lt;/span&gt; note regarding licenses&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;While there are many things I don't like about R6RS, I would like to see the macro and module system integrated into Gambit, specifically so that Meroon can be rewritten to use these features.&amp;nbsp; I think Meroon is in a design space sweet spot, and with Meroon's close integration into the Gambit runtime, a better macro/module implementation would make it quite appealing.&amp;nbsp; Perhaps Gambit could use Andre van Tonder's implementation, but I haven't yet looked at the license.&amp;nbsp; (Brad Lucier)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;While there are many things I don't like about R6RS, I would like to see the macro and module system integrated into Gambit, specifically so that Meroon can be rewritten to use these features.&amp;nbsp; I think Meroon is in a design space sweet spot, and with Meroon's close integration into the Gambit runtime, a better macro/module implementation would make it quite appealing.&amp;nbsp; Perhaps Gambit could use Andre van Tonder's implementation, but I haven't yet looked at the license.&amp;nbsp; (Brad Lucier)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Regarding the [http://www.het.brown.edu/people/andre/macros/index.html implementation] mentioned above, there are two relevant licenses: [http://www.het.brown.edu/people/andre/macros/implementation/version%202.2%20(libraries)/simple-macros.scm this] file carries the [http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php MIT license], whereas [http://www.het.brown.edu/people/andre/macros/implementation/version%202.2%20(libraries)/simple-syntax-case.scm this] file carries the [http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php BSD license]. (Elias Pipping)&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;====FFI Improvement====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;====FFI Improvement====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Pipping</name></author>	</entry>

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		<title>Dpeschel: Rewrote because I understand Gambit better, clarified other-system descriptions, reformatted paragraphs.</title>
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				<updated>2008-03-31T00:39:29Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Rewrote because I understand Gambit better, clarified other-system descriptions, reformatted paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;====Better communication with the IDE====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;====Better communication with the IDE====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Most of the Emacs &amp;quot;shell&amp;quot; packages for LISP and Scheme, and the Eclipse plugins, and specialized self-contained programs like GUIDE, work by creating &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;an &lt;/del&gt;ordinary UNIX &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;stream &lt;/del&gt;between the IDE and the interpreter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Most of the Emacs &amp;quot;shell&amp;quot; packages for LISP and Scheme, and the Eclipse plugins, and specialized self-contained programs like GUIDE, work by creating ordinary UNIX &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;streams &lt;/ins&gt;between the IDE and the interpreter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;As a result neither side is very aware of what the other side is doing, and the IDE has to guess many things about the state of the interpreter like the locations of prompts and the syntax of the language.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;As a result neither side is very aware of what the other side is doing, and the IDE has to guess many things about the state of the interpreter like the locations of prompts and the syntax of the language.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;It would be great to see a &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;Scheme &lt;/del&gt;IDE moving beyond the stream idea.&amp;nbsp; &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;(&lt;/del&gt;SLIME&lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;, PLT Scheme, and MIT Scheme are moving -- are they the only ones? &lt;/del&gt; CLIM &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;has &lt;/del&gt;streams, &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;but very fancy ones&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;)&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;It would be great to see a &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;Gambit &lt;/ins&gt;IDE moving beyond the &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;UNIX &lt;/ins&gt;stream idea.&amp;nbsp; &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;That can be done in many ways.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/ins&gt;SLIME &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;uses streams of events or messages. &lt;/ins&gt; CLIM &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;uses even fancier &lt;/ins&gt;streams &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;which may contain complex objects&lt;/ins&gt;, &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;which may update any part of a display of output instead of just adding to it, and which allow input to be edited and reread without much work by the REPL&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;The point above mentions one way to do that.&amp;nbsp; Writing a SLIME backend for Gambit&lt;/del&gt;, as &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;described &lt;/del&gt;on &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;[[GSoC ideas list]], is another&lt;/del&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;gambit.el&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; &lt;/del&gt;and &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;_repl.scm&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; could be extended &lt;/del&gt;together to &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;accomplish something similar to SLIME&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;Emacs LISP&lt;/ins&gt;, &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;MIT Scheme, Portable Hemlock, and Climacs make editor buffers &lt;/ins&gt;as &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;easily available as streams are &lt;/ins&gt;on &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;UNIX&lt;/ins&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;PLT Scheme has editor buffers, &lt;/ins&gt;and &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;controls the window organization (some buffers and a REPL are grouped &lt;/ins&gt;together &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;in a window) and limits the actions of the REPL &lt;/ins&gt;to &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;prevent side effects.&amp;nbsp; None of these systems deal with the problem of separate REPL and interpreter processes, however&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A new design could lead to useful new features:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;A Gambit IDE might use TCP ports as described in the section above.&amp;nbsp; It might use a SLIME backend, as described on [[GSoC ideas list]].&amp;nbsp; Perhaps with enough work, &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;gambit.el&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; and &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;_repl.scm&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; could be extended together to accomplish something similar to SLIME.&amp;nbsp; In any case the reader also could use some redesign.&amp;nbsp; It works only with input streams, not groups of streams like stdin/stdout/stderr, so for example the reader can't tell the REPL anything about its state or the characters it has read.&amp;nbsp; Making new port types and operations, and changing the reader in a few places to use the new operations, might be best since old code would work unchanged.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* Completion of symbol names&lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;, syntax&lt;/del&gt;-based editing, enforcing correct use of comma commands (which must come outside of code), and similar things would always be correct.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* The input history could be &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;divded &lt;/del&gt;into forms and commands (which is what the interpreter really cares about) rather than lines.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A new &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;IDE &lt;/ins&gt;design could lead to useful new features:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* Completion of symbol names &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;could be done even with the REPL and interpreter in different processes.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;* Syntax&lt;/ins&gt;-based editing, enforcing correct use of comma commands (which must come outside of code), and similar things would always be correct.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* The input history could be &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;divided &lt;/ins&gt;into forms and commands (which is what the interpreter really cares about) rather than lines.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* The REPL transcripts, backtraces, etc. shown in the editor would keep their structure (given by the interpreter).&amp;nbsp; You could navigate around them, and copy or re-evaluate pieces of code from them.&amp;nbsp; You could separate the display style from the contents.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* The REPL transcripts, backtraces, etc. shown in the editor would keep their structure (given by the interpreter).&amp;nbsp; You could navigate around them, and copy or re-evaluate pieces of code from them.&amp;nbsp; You could separate the display style from the contents.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* Then, for example, you could have the current state of your session (with multiple REPL levels, &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;backraces&lt;/del&gt;, environments, etc.) nicely organized in a series of windows.&amp;nbsp; The stepper and tracer would be available from menus and not just keyboard commands.&amp;nbsp; Ideally you could see many more details about the session than you can now, quickly and without being overwhelmed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* Then, for example, you could have the current state of your session (with multiple REPL levels, &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;backtraces&lt;/ins&gt;, environments, etc.) nicely organized in a series of windows.&amp;nbsp; The stepper and tracer would be available from menus and not just keyboard commands.&amp;nbsp; Ideally you could see many more details about the session than you can now, quickly and without being overwhelmed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* Parse errors could put the cursor back in the input, making re-editing quicker.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* Parse errors could put the cursor back in the input, making re-editing quicker.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* If the design was implemented well, it would include library functions that new tools could use.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* If the design was implemented well, it would include library functions that new tools could use.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Dpeschel</name></author>	</entry>

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		<title>Sthilaid at 18:56, 27 March 2008</title>
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				<updated>2008-03-27T18:56:45Z</updated>
		
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* If the design was implemented well, it would include library functions that new tools could use.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* If the design was implemented well, it would include library functions that new tools could use.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Perhaps each feature doesn't sound essential, but I believe they would be very useful together.&amp;nbsp; They are also difficult or impossible to implement with the current design.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Perhaps each feature doesn't sound essential, but I believe they would be very useful together.&amp;nbsp; They are also difficult or impossible to implement with the current design.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;====UDP Ports====&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;It would be nice to also be able to use UDP ports in gambit.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Dpeschel: Added a wish.</title>
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				<updated>2008-03-21T23:15:16Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Added a wish.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp; (STDOUT 42) (STDERR &amp;quot;hello&amp;quot;) (VALUE 3.141592)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp; (STDOUT 42) (STDERR &amp;quot;hello&amp;quot;) (VALUE 3.141592)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;meaning that it wrote 42 on the standard output (with DISPLAY), the string hello on the standard error (with PP) and that the value returned by the call was π.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;meaning that it wrote 42 on the standard output (with DISPLAY), the string hello on the standard error (with PP) and that the value returned by the call was π.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;====Better communication with the IDE====&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Most of the Emacs &amp;quot;shell&amp;quot; packages for LISP and Scheme, and the Eclipse plugins, and specialized self-contained programs like GUIDE, work by creating an ordinary UNIX stream between the IDE and the interpreter.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;As a result neither side is very aware of what the other side is doing, and the IDE has to guess many things about the state of the interpreter like the locations of prompts and the syntax of the language.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;It would be great to see a Scheme IDE moving beyond the stream idea.&amp;nbsp; (SLIME, PLT Scheme, and MIT Scheme are moving -- are they the only ones?&amp;nbsp; CLIM has streams, but very fancy ones.)&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;The point above mentions one way to do that.&amp;nbsp; Writing a SLIME backend for Gambit, as described on [[GSoC ideas list]], is another.&amp;nbsp; &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;gambit.el&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; and &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;_repl.scm&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; could be extended together to accomplish something similar to SLIME.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;A new design could lead to useful new features:&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;* Completion of symbol names, syntax-based editing, enforcing correct use of comma commands (which must come outside of code), and similar things would always be correct.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;* The input history could be divded into forms and commands (which is what the interpreter really cares about) rather than lines.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;* The REPL transcripts, backtraces, etc. shown in the editor would keep their structure (given by the interpreter).&amp;nbsp; You could navigate around them, and copy or re-evaluate pieces of code from them.&amp;nbsp; You could separate the display style from the contents.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;* Then, for example, you could have the current state of your session (with multiple REPL levels, backraces, environments, etc.) nicely organized in a series of windows.&amp;nbsp; The stepper and tracer would be available from menus and not just keyboard commands.&amp;nbsp; Ideally you could see many more details about the session than you can now, quickly and without being overwhelmed.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;* Parse errors could put the cursor back in the input, making re-editing quicker.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;* If the design was implemented well, it would include library functions that new tools could use.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Perhaps each feature doesn't sound essential, but I believe they would be very useful together.&amp;nbsp; They are also difficult or impossible to implement with the current design.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Dpeschel</name></author>	</entry>

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		<title>Dpeschel: Added a wish.</title>
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				<updated>2008-03-06T23:20:42Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Added a wish.&lt;/p&gt;
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		&lt;td colspan='2' style=&quot;background-color: white; color:black;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 23:20, 6 March 2008&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The source code needs to be documented more thoroughly if Gambit is to thrive as an open-source project.&amp;nbsp; This is something a lot of people could work on, but Marc would probably need to do most of the work for the compiler.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The source code needs to be documented more thoroughly if Gambit is to thrive as an open-source project.&amp;nbsp; This is something a lot of people could work on, but Marc would probably need to do most of the work for the compiler.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;====Code-anlaysis tools====&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;A call-graph printer, for example, would make the system sources much easier to understand and change.&amp;nbsp; It might also speed up the work of writing documentation (as mentioned above).&amp;nbsp; Ideally the compiler is already doing this kind of analysis and the data just needs to be printed out.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;====Identify and Implement Important Optimizations====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;====Identify and Implement Important Optimizations====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Bjlucier: Wish for inlined two-list map</title>
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				<updated>2008-02-29T19:51:33Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wish for inlined two-list map&lt;/p&gt;
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		&lt;td colspan='2' style=&quot;background-color: white; color:black;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 19:51, 29 February 2008&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=====More inline expansions=====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=====More inline expansions=====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Inline expansion and run-time bindings have proved very effective compilation strategies for standard functions.&amp;nbsp; Perhaps the majority of the work has been done, but there are still opportunities to be identified and implemented (e.g., eqv?, read-char, and write-char for starters).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Inline expansion and run-time bindings have proved very effective compilation strategies for standard functions.&amp;nbsp; Perhaps the majority of the work has been done, but there are still opportunities to be identified and implemented (e.g., eqv?, read-char, and write-char for starters)&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Two-list map is common enough that it should be inlined, as one-list map already is&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=====Efficient compilation of quasiquote=====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=====Efficient compilation of quasiquote=====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Bjlucier</name></author>	</entry>

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		<title>WikiSysop: Wish for more efficient compilation of quasiquote fulfilled.</title>
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				<updated>2008-02-15T04:34:59Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wish for more efficient compilation of quasiquote fulfilled.&lt;/p&gt;
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		&lt;td colspan='2' style=&quot;background-color: white; color:black;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 04:34, 15 February 2008&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;in the Ikarus version of the alioth binary trees benchmark, for example, and compiled the code with Gambit, the run time went from 40 seconds to 8 seconds.&amp;nbsp; Runtimes shouldn't depend so much on different ways of doing the same thing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;in the Ikarus version of the alioth binary trees benchmark, for example, and compiled the code with Gambit, the run time went from 40 seconds to 8 seconds.&amp;nbsp; Runtimes shouldn't depend so much on different ways of doing the same thing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;(48 hours later.)&amp;nbsp; This should be fixed by checkin 95.&amp;nbsp; That was fast!&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=====Faster unsafe numerical inline expansions=====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=====Faster unsafe numerical inline expansions=====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>WikiSysop</name></author>	</entry>

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		<title>WikiSysop: Efficient compilation of quasiquotation</title>
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				<updated>2008-02-12T05:50:30Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Efficient compilation of quasiquotation&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=====More inline expansions=====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=====More inline expansions=====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Inline expansion and run-time bindings have proved very effective compilation strategies for standard functions.&amp;nbsp; Perhaps the majority of the work has been done, but there are still opportunities to be identified and implemented (e.g., eqv?, read-char, and write-char for starters).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Inline expansion and run-time bindings have proved very effective compilation strategies for standard functions.&amp;nbsp; Perhaps the majority of the work has been done, but there are still opportunities to be identified and implemented (e.g., eqv?, read-char, and write-char for starters).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;=====Efficient compilation of quasiquote=====&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Right now, any use of quasiquotation results in calls to the built-in routines ##quasi-cons, ##quasi-list, ##quasi-list-&amp;gt;vector, etc.&amp;nbsp; When I changed&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;(define (make-node left val right) `#(node ,left ,val ,right))&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;to&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;(define (make-node left val right) (vector 'node left val right))&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;in the Ikarus version of the alioth binary trees benchmark, for example, and compiled the code with Gambit, the run time went from 40 seconds to 8 seconds.&amp;nbsp; Runtimes shouldn't depend so much on different ways of doing the same thing.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=====Faster unsafe numerical inline expansions=====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=====Faster unsafe numerical inline expansions=====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>WikiSysop</name></author>	</entry>

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		<title>Pied: TCP/IP interpreter</title>
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				<updated>2008-01-24T22:32:55Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;TCP/IP interpreter&lt;/p&gt;
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		&lt;td colspan='2' style=&quot;background-color: white; color:black;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 22:32, 24 January 2008&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The aim is to simplify file managing, when reading/writing data stored in S-exprs, such as a config file or else...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The aim is to simplify file managing, when reading/writing data stored in S-exprs, such as a config file or else...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;====TCP/IP interpreter====&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Couldn't we run a session of the interpreter on a socket/pipe ?&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;It would enable calling gambit easily from other programs, from scripts, etc.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;It could use several connexions for default input/ouput ports and result port, or reply with answers like &lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt; (STDOUT 42) (STDERR &amp;quot;hello&amp;quot;) (VALUE 3.141592)&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;meaning that it wrote 42 on the standard output (with DISPLAY), the string hello on the standard error (with PP) and that the value returned by the call was π.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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