From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: vm status update Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:05:09 +0100 Message-ID: <878wpfzl56.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231833941 30781 80.91.229.12 (13 Jan 2009 08:05:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:05:41 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 13 09:06:53 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LMeIR-00039d-HS for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:06:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43288 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LMeHB-0004m1-6o for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:05:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMeH4-0004jo-U1 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:05:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMeH3-0004iD-2n for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:05:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51580 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LMeH2-0004i3-SJ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:05:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:9062) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LMeH1-00019N-Rc for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:05:20 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LMeH0-0005J3-PR for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:05:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LMeH0-0007fs-4f for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:05:18 +0000 Original-Received: from 193.50.110.227 ([193.50.110.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:05:18 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by 193.50.110.227 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:05:18 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.50.110.227 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 24 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Niv=F4se?= an 217 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8Nmbhf+bbMv2M76xGCoMe01aQ6w= X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:8000 Archived-At: Hey! Andy Wingo writes: > I just finished up a lot of typing at the manual, and I hope I'm done > with that. The net result is that the VM is documented quite thoroughly, > and the compiler as well. I'll send those documents to the list in > separate mails for inline comments. Great! > I had an idea regarding unit tests recently: since GHIL and GLIL now > have (documented!) S-expression representations, we should be able to > easily and expressively test individual compiler passes. Looking forward > to that. That'd be nice. Pattern matching could perhaps make it easier to write the tests. Thanks for the good news! :-) Ludo'.