* module/system/base/language.scm (<language>): Add 'for-humans?'
field, and export new 'language-for-humans?' predicate.
* doc/ref/compiler.texi (Compiler Tower): Document.
* module/language/assembly/spec.scm, module/language/bytecode/spec.scm,
module/language/glil/spec.scm, module/language/objcode/spec.scm,
module/language/tree-il/spec.scm, module/language/value/spec.scm:
Mark these languages as 'for-humans?'.
* module/system/base/language.scm (<language>): Remove the `version'
field from languages. It just wasn't useful.
* module/language/assembly/spec.scm:
* module/language/brainfuck/spec.scm:
* module/language/bytecode/spec.scm:
* module/language/ecmascript/spec.scm:
* module/language/elisp/spec.scm:
* module/language/glil/spec.scm:
* module/language/objcode/spec.scm:
* module/language/scheme/spec.scm:
* module/language/tree-il/spec.scm:
* module/language/value/spec.scm: Remove #:version from all language
definitions. Shorten some language names (e.g. "Guile Scheme" ->
"Scheme").
* module/system/base/language.scm (<language>): Rework so that instead of
hardcoding passes in the language, we define compilers that translate
from one language to another. Add `parser' to the language fields, a
bit of a hack but useful for languages with s-expression external
representations but with record internal representations.
(define-language, *compilation-cache*, invalidate-compilation-cache!)
(compute-compilation-order, lookup-compilation-order): Add an algorithm
that does a depth-first search for a translation path from a source
language to a target language, caching the result in a lookup table.
* module/language/scheme/spec.scm:
* module/language/ghil/spec.scm: Update to the new language format.
* module/language/glil/spec.scm: Add a language specification for GLIL,
with a compiler to objcode. Also there are parsers and printers, for
repl usage, but for some reason this doesn't work yet.
* module/language/objcode/spec.scm: Define a language specification for
object code. There is some sleight of hand here, in the "compiler" to
values; but there is method behind the madness, because this way we
higher levels can pass environments (a module + externals pair) to
objcode->program.
* module/language/value/spec.scm: Define a language specification for
values. There is something intellectually dishonest about this, but it
does serve its purpose as a foundation for the language hierarchy.
* configure.in:
* module/language/Makefile.am
* module/language/ghil/Makefile.am
* module/language/glil/Makefile.am
* module/language/objcode/Makefile.am
* module/language/value/Makefile.am:
Autotomfoolery for the ghil, glil, objcode, and value languages.
* module/language/scheme/translate.scm (translate): Import the bits that
understand `compile-time-environment' here, and pass on the relevant
portions of the environment to the next compiler pass.
* module/system/base/compile.scm (current-language): New procedure, refs
the current language fluid, or lazily sets it to scheme.
(call-once, call-with-output-file/atomic): Refactor these bits to use
with-throw-handler. No functional change.
(compile-file, compile-and-load, compile-passes, compile-fold)
(compile): Refactor the public interface of the compiler to be generic
and simple. Uses `lookup-compilation-order' to find a path from the
source language to the target language.
* module/system/base/syntax.scm (define-type): Adapt to changes in
define-record.
(define-record): Instead of expecting all slots in the first form,
expect them in the body, and let the first form hold the options.
* module/system/il/compile.scm (compile): Adapt to the compilation pass
API (three in and two out).
* module/system/il/ghil.scm (<ghil-var>, <ghil-env>)
(<ghil-toplevel-env>): Adapt to define-record changes.
* module/system/il/glil.scm (<glil-vars>): Adapt to define-record
changes.
(<glil>, print-glil): Add a GLIL record printer that uses unparse.
(parse-glil, unparse-glil): Update unparse (formerly known as pprint),
and write a parse function.
* module/system/repl/common.scm (<repl>): Adapt to define-record changes.
(repl-parse): New function, parses the read form using the current
language. Something of a hack.
(repl-compile): Adapt to changes in `compile'.
(repl-eval): Fix up the does-the-language-have-a-compiler check for
changes in <language>.
* module/system/repl/repl.scm (start-repl): Parse the form before eval.
* module/system/repl/command.scm (describe): Parse.
(compile): Be more generic.
(compile-file): Adapt to changes in compile-file.
(disassemble, time, profile, trace): Parse.
* module/system/vm/debug.scm:
* module/system/vm/assemble.scm: Adapt to define-record changes.
* module/language/scheme/translate.scm (receive): Fix an important bug
that gave `receive' letrec semantics instead of let semantics. Whoops!
