[svn commit] r409 - trunk

[jimb at red-bean.com]

Author: jimb
Date: Tue Mar 22 15:23:13 2005
New Revision: 409

Modified:
   trunk/TODO
Log:
Add more TODO items.


Modified: trunk/TODO
==============================================================================
--- trunk/TODO	(original)
+++ trunk/TODO	Tue Mar 22 15:23:13 2005
@@ -2,16 +2,44 @@
 
 * implement port tests
 
+  - test parsing every possible sort of token directly concatenated
+    with every other possible sort
+
+  - test parsing numbers at extremes of fixnum range
+
 * fix build warnings for numbers.c
 
 * still need tests for unsigned C API functions
 
+* Need tests for strings with embedded null characters.
+
+
 ==== prd.txt item 3 (simple <minor/minor.h> C interfaces) finished
 
+* Re-prioritize to-do items.
+
 * tests for unicode-case.c
 
 * sketch new character set conversion interface; see how well we can do
 
+* Set up automatic mirroring of Unicode data files on alligator.
+
+* Set up process to do nightly check out / make dist / unpack
+  / build { in source tree, in separate tree }
+
+* Update unicode-data files in Minor source tree.
+
+* Implement better Unicode case insensitivity in reader.
+
+* Rename 'struct string' members 'size' and 'length' to 'byte_size'
+and 'char_length'.
+
+* Should mn_get_utf8 and mn_put_utf8 return a count of code units
+  consumed, instead of a new pointer?  Should they take a pointer by
+  reference?  (GCC's manual says it will never place a variable in a
+  register if its address is taken.)  Try changing the callers first,
+  and see how they look.
+
 * Add 'process this file with automake' notes to all Makefile.am files
 
 * Rename 'configure.in' to 'configure.ac'; check on naming conventions
@@ -20,8 +48,6 @@
 * Fix uses of ` in source code:
 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
 
-* Need tests for strings with embedded null characters.
-
 * Use linked lists in gc/tests/disjoint-types.c.
 
 * New test stress-pair.c: build random trees, trade pieces between
@@ -30,6 +56,22 @@
 thread record the sequence of other threads it traded with, and then
 in the replay wait only for that thread.
 
+* Document naming conventions somewhere:
+
+- 'str', 'mem', 'mbs', 'wcs', and type names as used in ISO C for
+  <limits.h> _MIN/_MAX macros
+
+- 'string', 'number', etc. for Scheme types
+
+- 'utf8', 'uni' for Unicode utf8 strings and code points, uni_cat for
+  general categories, uni_cat_set for category sets
+
+- TYPE_to_TYPE for all conversion functions
+
+- QUALITY_p for all predicates, or is_QUALITY for all predicates
+
+- ad_FOO for linear accessors
+
 * Choose a better convention than 'to' for linear functions.
 mn_to_cons and mn_to_int look parallel, but aren't.  How about 'ad':
 Latin for 'to', like "ad astra": "to the stars".  Functions with 'ad'
@@ -96,13 +138,16 @@
 distinctive #{used freed reference} value.  That value could be caught
 by dynamic type checks, and would look funny if printed.
 
+
 ==== prd.txt item 4 ("define Core Scheme") finished
 
 * The hash table should be its own type, and the symbol table just one
 application of it.
 
+
 ==== prd.txt item 6 ("implement Core Scheme") finished
 
+
 ==== prd.txt item 7 ("Macro expander") finished
 
 * It might be nice to eliminate the use of mn__per_thread from this
@@ -110,6 +155,7 @@
 
 * Use cancellation, not a thread-specific value destructor.
 
+
 ==== prd.txt item 8 ("Full R5RS, with modules and macros") finished
 
 * generate per-type test functions in c-api-numbers.c with a shell script
@@ -145,8 +191,9 @@
 constant displacement in an addressing mode to access cars and cdrs;
 you'll really have to mask things off.  Get over it.
 
-* Labels for built-in types should be statically allocated and
-initialized, and placed in the immortal generation.
+* Labels for built-in types and symbols constructed at initialization
+should be statically allocated and initialized, and placed in the
+immortal generation.
 
 * Mirage GC map nodes should be statically allocated and initialized.