Summary of active issues, 12/21/88

[sandra%defun@cs.utah.edu (Sandra J Loosemore)]

Here is the latest summary of pending cl-compiler issues.

These issues appear to be ready for release.  There has been no
discussion on any of these issues since the latest versions were sent
out (weeks and weeks ago) and everybody on the cl-compiler list should
have had sufficient time and warning by now to comment on them.  I
plan to distribute these writeups to the X3J13 mailing list by the
first of the year, and I think there is a reasonable chance that we
could vote on these at the January meeting.

  ALLOW-LOCAL-INLINE
  COMPILE-ENVIRONMENT-CONSISTENCY
  COMPILER-LET-CONFUSION
  DEFCONSTANT-SPECIAL
  LOAD-TIME-EVAL
  SHARP-COMMA-CONFUSION


The next bunch of issues are those that have actively been under
discussion within the past week or two.  Because these issues haven't
yet stabilized and some of you may not have had time to comment on
them, I do not think it is reasonable to request a vote on them at the
upcoming meeting.  However, I would like to distribute the writeups on
these issues to X3J13 in advance of the meeting, as drafts for
discussion.  If you have comments on these issues that you want
incorporated before I send them out, please get them in by Jan 6th.

  COMPILER-DIAGNOSTICS 
    Version 7 sent out on Dec 16.

  COMPILER-VERBOSITY
    Version 4 mailed Dec 21.

  COMPILE-FILE-HANDLING-OF-TOP-LEVEL-FORMS
    Version 7 sent out on Dec 16.
    Still need help with CLOS defining macros.

  DEFINING-MACROS-NON-TOP-LEVEL
    Version 5 mailed Dec 16.
    
  EVAL-WHEN-NON-TOP-LEVEL
    Version 2 mailed Dec 16.

  QUOTE-MAY-COPY
    Do we really need all three options in the latest writeup?
    Need to clarify effects on other constant proposals.

  CONSTANT-COMPILABLE-TYPES
    Version 4 mailed Dec 20.

  CONSTANT-CIRCULAR-COMPILATION
  CONSTANT-COLLAPSING
    May need minor tweaks (how affected by QUOTE-MAY-COPY)

  CONSTANT-MODIFICATION
    Ready for release?


The following issues are those which I don't plan to work on myself
until after the January meeting:

  CONSTANT-ARRAY-ATTRIBUTES
    Subsumed by CONSTANT-COMPILABLE-TYPES

  COMPILE-FILE-ENVIRONMENT
    Superseded by issue SYNTACTIC-ENVIRONMENT-ACCESS, unless that issue
    has died.

  DEFCONSTANT-NOT-WIRED
    Still under discussion, no consensus yet

  DEFCONSTANT-VALUE
    Subsumed by issue COMPILE-FILE-HANDLING-OF-TOP-LEVEL-FORMS

  DEFINE-OPTIMIZER
    Waiting for revisions (Pitman)

  FILE-COMPILATION
    same issue as CONSTANT-COMPILABLE-TYPES

  PROCLAIM-ETC-IN-COMPILE-FILE
    Waiting for resolution of related cleanup issues (DEFPACKAGE,
    IN-PACKAGE-FUNCTIONALITY)

  SYNTACTIC-ENVIRONMENT-ACCESS
    Waiting for new writeup (Benson)

  WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT
    Waiting for revisions to existing proposal (Pitman)
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