[cells-devel] Two Next Steps for Cells, One New CL-6502 Module For Example

[Kenny Tilton]

>> OK, the Cells CVS repository has been cleaned up and I am on the 
>> verge of making my first changes to Cells, so (a) beware and (b) 
>> anyone with a standalone tarball will soon be diverging from the 
>> official code.
>>
>> My first change will be an oddity: ephemeral cells, when reset, do 
>> not get the corresponding slot value reset. I have not made this 
>> change yet, so maybe it was that way for a reason? Hard to imagine.
>>
>> Second will be repairing the damage done to Synapses.
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>
> No, come to think of it second will be some easier work:
>
> (a) a check that Cells is not *stop*ped, which will be avoidable with 
> a new special I will set when working under typical window manager 
> environments (a long story, wherein the app cannot be successfully 
> killed because the IDE keeps allowing OS events thru to application 
> windows).
>
> (b) eliminate the check for looping in which one setf of a cell leads 
> back to setf of the same cell (the scroll bar scenario). I will leave 
> the code behind in case I decide to simply enhance cycle detection as 
> opposed to wiping it out entirely. 

Done. And with (b) I have created a new example cells-inside module from 
James Bielman's nifty cl-6502 assembler code, named cl-6502. It cycles a 
little on setf to effect a two-pass assemble.

Next will be....

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> Then I will properly Unify Synapses with Cells, and beef up the test 
> suite a little. 

kt