[bitc-dev] Where we are...

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

I just want to give people a snapshot of where things are on this end.

1. Swaroop is about to spend several weeks on another activity (final
workup on a paper), so things are probably about to stall for a little
while.

2. We have a *major* problem with initialization order that needs to get
resolved (more to come).

3. My attempt to start an I/O library and the conversion operators
quickly convinced me that we really need to do type classes in the
bootstrap compiler. We're going to need a whole bunch of library code to
make this think useful. Much of the early library code will be exactly
the type of generic stuff that we really want the type classes for.

4. At the same time, I also started to realize that a whole lot of that
library could be written in BitC the first time if I get Swaroop to make
another small change to the compiler. This much I can probably get him
to do even given his other responsibilities.


shap