snapshots (was: Re: line number tracking in the parser)

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Jan-2009, David Bateman wrote:

| In any case apart from the two points
| 
|   1. Objects:
|     - Operator overloading vs. constant folding
| 
|   +. Handle block comments.  This is not quite finished as block
|      comments inside [] or {}, and also in the group of comments
|      following a continuation character, etc., are not handled.  See
|      the FIXME comments in lex.l.
| 
| that you John basically said you won't handle I see nothing left to do 
| from the 3.2 task list, and I know of no show stopper bugs (unless the 
| breakpoint issue above is considered a show stopper)... We really need a 
| 3.1.52 release and start stabilizing for a 3.2 release.

I'd like to get the changes for the tree-walker evaluator in before
making a snapshot as I think it will make fixing bugs in the debugger
easier, and I think it will be make it possible to add a profiler
without doing major surgery on the interpreter.  After that, we should
try to take care of pending bug reports and patches.  Then I can start
making a series of snapshots and we can start working toward the
release.  Does that seem OK?  Are there any other major changes that
are pending?

jwe