Development Roadmap for the CHICKEN Core System (historical revision 32527)

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remove deprecated (name . llist) syntax for define-syntax and define-compiler-syntax
remove deprecated always?, never? and none? (data-structures.scm)
remove deprecated shuffle (data-structures.scm)
remove deprecated use of lambda in place of a syntax-transformer
remove deprecated mutate-procedure (lolevel.scm)
remove deprecated "accidental" libc syntax for NaN and infinity
remove deprecated -heap-initial-size, -heap-growth and -heap-shrinkage compiler options
enable "clustering" optimization by default
remove deprecated make facility from setup-api

add "functors", module aliases and named interfaces
add "specialization" (type-driven optimizations based on scrutinizer information)
deprecate shuffle, null-pointer and null-pointer? (lolevel.scm)
deprecate mutate-procedure, which is now called mutate-procedure! (lolevel.scm)
deprecate implicit lambda-syntax and use of procedures instead of values returned by er-macro-transformer, ir-macro-transformer and syntax-rules for syntax and compiler-syntax definitions
deprecate "accidental" libc syntax for NaN and infinity number types in string->number and number->string
remove deprecated -static-extension option
remove deprecated ___byte_vector type (chicken.h)
remove deprecated script feature id
remove deprecated c-runtime procedure (library.scm)
remove deprecated null-pointer and null-pointer? (lolevel.scm)
remove support for old argument signature for find-files (posix-common.scm)
remove deprecated required-chicken-version and required-extension-version (setup-api.scm)
remove support for deprecated keywordless argument signature of find-files (posix-common.scm)

Development Roadmap for the CHICKEN Core System