allison-casey/issues.md

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    Project Management


#1778 move from google groups
#1900 github actions for stale issues/PRs and package deployment
#1738 fancy landing page for Hy
#1751 move CI away from Travis
#957 add donation option to support hy dev
#1618 bring vim-hy up to date

Probably should be closed


#817 magically call (global sym) when using setv

adds magic unexpected behavior to core special form


#1089 add dynamic/special variables to Hy

diverges from "lipstick on python"


#1100 special cases auto-convert strings to symbols when
when used as l-values

wrapping l-value in HySymbol works just fine and doesn't
introduce magic behaviour


#1119 shorthand for :kwarg True/False etc

we've been moving away from special non-pythonic special forms (like implicit None in fn args)
and this and falls under a similar category. Should probably be a transforming tag macro if anything


#1227 remove u"" form

u is discarded anyways and it aligns with python3 language ref


#1357 improve irc experience

IRC is dead


#1366 bring back apply
#1393 add condp to core

ifp was added to in contrib.destructure


#1396 shadow assoc

assoc returns None so why shadow?


#1406 consider backing HyList with a deque instead of list

no real evidence this is worth the effort to fix something that isn't broken


#1414 macro can't expand in the same module it's defined in if it uses a global from it

wrap in eval-when-compile


#1440 Flattening list of lists of dicts leads to surprising results

what and how something is iterable is different in python compared to clojure and
the same behaviour shouldn't be expected


#1481 implicit tuple to slice construction

already covered by hy.contrib.slicing


#1492 Generate ExtSlice

ExtSlice has been removed since move to python3


#1703 scope of functions resulting form a macro expansion

May have already been fixed by changes to macro namespacing


#1728 atypecase macro (probably solved already via ifp)
#1774 packaging Hy code with zipapp does not work

zipapp fundamentally doesn't package dependencies with it and patching that is
out of scope for the Hy team


#1796 kwargs with symbolic :keywords as keys

using keywords as dict keys is discouraged, even more so since #1977


NonCritical Features


#142 post-mortem debugging from repl (undocumented)
#234 curses based internals debugger
#290 race conditions (undocumented)
#464 cython code generator

even necessary?


#676 disassemble utility to show bytecode
#689 option to only check syntax
#722 real reader macros

may not be possible without complete rewrite of parser


#740 macro to check what features hy version program is using supports
#780 support RPython
#934 add IronPython and Jython support
#900 macrolet in walk

whats the difference between smacrolet and macrolet?


#. sharpsign-dot #. reader macro

is this just a reader for eval-and-compile?


#1019 support doctest with hy
#1181 time-it macro

similiar to existing contrib.profile


#1220 add pyrsistent tag macro to contrib
#1242 new seq abstraction

similar to contrib.sequence possibly a more general replacement?


#1318 add pre and post conditions to defn

can be done with decorators and probably should be in contrib if anywhere


#1323 make HyREPL embeddable simlilar to IPython.embed()
#1347 macro to def identical macro and defn version of a function
#1383 shadow cut
#1398 ci code quality (flake8, coverage, etc)
#1434 error messages color
#1435 delimit --spy output
#1441 introspecting -compile-table constructs
#1482 add clojure-like metadata ^{...} sym to Hy
#1577 shorter mangled names for common punctuation
#1655 provide a %%hy cell magic for IPython
#1704 internal python code formatting (black)
#1721 python->hy converter (not actionable until 1.0)
#1724 make inc/dec mutative (I think this is a bad idea or fixed with incv/decv)
#1737 every? should lose ? mark or some should gain one
#1769 make keyword dictionary access return a mutable reference
#1901 pyinstaller support

Maybe Features


#277 namespaced symbols
#915 get with default value
#952 decorators ugly, maybe bring in to fn form with
something like @[dec1 dec]
#1018 make hy work with python -m package.module
#1108 extend . to accept calls
#1247 add #l tag macro/add mapv (more pythonic as lmap) to core
#1395 hy -i should support the debugger
#1407 get rid of autoimports viw new namespace

stopgap fixed with builtins pr


#1469 some-> and some->> threading macros
#1488 support more of CPython's command-line options
#1526 make pytest hy plugin
#1532 assoc for attrs
#1611 #, tuple tag macro
#1612 import syntax improvements
#1635 mangle leading - differently to prevent them from becoming module private
#1692 turn require into a macro
#1696 make inspect module compatible with Hy
#1723 inconsistent for syntax
#1753 sys.executable confuses python libraries
#1765 don't mangle hy symbols that collide with python reserved words
#1786 call multiprocessing.set-executable at startup
#1954 pattern matching support (python 3.10)

Necessary Features


#741 better syntax errors for debugging macros

need to check if this is still an issue


#1411 rethink fn args list

posonly and simplified arg format fixed in pr #1975


#1644 don't include the namespace in the import's name for hy models
#1693 remove internal importlib frames from traceback
#1856 support windows "embeddable zip file" release of python

Compiler Performance Optimizations


#842 nested if* waste assignments
#854 and/or converts to nested if's if they contain statements.

may not be issue now that setx exists.


#1315 hy is slow to startup (50ms)
#1342 arguments aren't always evaulated left to right
#1519 making HyList.replace self mutating means better performance
#1701 Make HyASTCompiler more stateless
#1741 add typed_ast package
#1928 consider changing Hy model objects' design

Necessary Bugfixes


#659 zipapps are broken

may have to recommend shiv?


#791 autoimports shadow assignments (fix in pr #1979)
#1041 eval can't see locals
#1045 NameError for HyList etc (fix in pr #1979)
#1324 pyc files don't get recreated when they use a macro from a file that was changed

#1467 byproduct of #1324


#1363 Hy models have wrong equality (= 'hello "hello") etc

#1509 unquote-splice interacts with HySymbol Weirdly


#1535 On Windows, REPL fails to start if there's a non-ASCII character in .hy-history
#1541 Pygments Hy lexer needs improvements (not actionable until 1.0?)
#1544 get rid of __init__ return suppression automagic (still an issue?)
#1564 mangling changes broke compiler (still an issue?)
#1565 #@() throws an IndexError (still an issue?)
#1617 hy-repr mishandles lexically illegal symbols and keywords
#1689 macros name shadowing/collisions and removal
#1690 hy repl doesn't open on clean install python3.7
#1730 macros do not like unpack-mapping
#1747 slow startup when Hy is installed from a wheel
#1823 unable to import pip-installed & conda-installed modules in anaconda managed venv
#1873 hy-repr shouldn't use the registered function of a supertype
#1897 require with relative path crashes the compiler
#1921 curses and sigwinch do not work properly
#1978 importing qualified macros re-imports hy.core.macros as qualified as well

Documentation Overhaul


#858 literal documention all over the place
#1036 better big picture view of codebase
#1358 document macro-error
#1450 document how let treats macros
#1455 document the hidden &name parameter in defmacro
#1490 relable good-first-bug to good first issue in documentation
#1592 why is it called Hy and what's the squid about?
#1596 document how you need to convert to HySymbol after modifying sym in macro
#1624 document how with-decorator interacts with fn
#1649 who uses hy page update
#1676 add documentation for package management
#1934 how to define __all__ using unmangled sym names

Bugfixes


#847 make False falsey in lif variants
#972 consistent style in hy src code
#1355 install fails on Mac via homebrew

upstream bug with python. need to check if this was ever fixed or if we
need to fix this ourselves


#1465 loop/recur don't nest properly
#1591 read-str doesn't use the whole input
#1798 oddities in parsing of quote constructs
#1854 walk weaknesses