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diff --git a/whereweleftoff.org b/whereweleftoff.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b89918 --- /dev/null +++ b/whereweleftoff.org @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +[2026-06-26] + +- annotations do not work properly because macroexpansion creates an entirely new body for lambdas +- we realized that we are handling macro application in two separate places: pit_expand_macros expands lambda bodies, and pit_eval expands macros encountered while evaling. we ought to unify this so that only one is used (probably pit_expand_macros, because we need to expand macros eagerly to identify free variables to capture) +- we probably can make pit_expand_macros and pit_eval much nicer +- we can probably make pit_expand_macros operate in place +- if we want to be really smart, cool, happy, rich: + let's just make stuff translate to a little VM before it evaluates, and let's store VM programs as functions instead of sexps |