Implementation support: ECL

[aartaka]

• Y-OR-N-P*, YES-OR-NO-P*
  • Ensure that I/O (FINISH-OUTPUT etc.) is not buggy.
• APROPOS*, APROPOS-LIST*
  • Make it fast enough
  • Make sure that Graven Image APROPOS-LIST* returns the same
    data as the standard APROPOS-LIST when used with standard params.
    • (set-difference (apropos-list "A") (graven-image:apropos-list* "A"))
• FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION* etc.
  • Name fetching.
  • Arglist fetching.
  • Closure fetching.
  • Ftype fetching.
  • Source search.
  • Source parsing.
  • Generic functions support.
    • Methods support.
• TIME*
  • Real time.
  • User run time.
  • System run time.
  • CPU cores utilized.
  • CPU cycles spent.
  • CPU load.
  • GC count.
  • GC time.
  • Bytes consed.
  • Whether the evaluation aborted.
  • Page faults.
• DESCRIBE*, INSPECT*
  • Object IDs.
  • Object/type system specifics.
  • Implementation-specific properties.
  • Implementation-specific types/objects.
  • MOP object inspection.
  • Proper function/funcallable hierarchy inspection.
• DRIBBLE*
  • Trivial Gray Streams support.
  • Error output.
  • REPL prompt cleanup.
  • Empty line stripping.
• ED*
  • Function s-expr editing.
    • Persisting the edited code into the function itself (compilation).
  • File editing.
    • Big files fetching.
    • Binary files.
    • Lisp files.
    • Plaintext files.
  • String editing.
    • Modifying the string in memory.
• INVOKE-DEBUGGER*
  • Overriding the implementation-specific debugger.
  • Running standard debugger hooks unobtrusively.
  • Listing restarts.
  • Backtrace inspection (dissect).
    • Functions name.
    • Arguments.
    • Locals.
    • Eval-in-frame.