compilation cache: tests now part of test suite

todo.txt

@@ -18,12 +18,6 @@ incremental compilation
 
 - the loading has to be MUCH more lazy! --> next version: We should re-load
   symbol.ast lazily
-- automate tests:
-  - test basic recompilation scheme
-  - test type converters
-  - test G, A, B example from the documentation; test init sections
-  - test method generation
-  - test DLL interfacing
 
 
 version 0.9.0
@@ -34,7 +28,8 @@ version 0.9.0
 - unsigned ints and bignums; requires abstract integer literal type
 - implement the high level optimizer
 - warning for implicit openArray -> varargs convention
-- implement explicit varargs
+- implement explicit varargs; **but** ``len(varargs)`` problem remains! 
+  --> solve by implicit conversion from varargs to openarray
 - tests: run the GC tests
 - change overloading resolution
 - implement closures; implement proper coroutines
@@ -60,7 +55,7 @@ Bugs
     var x: int
     result = forward(x)
 
-- bug: DLL generation is broken
+- bug: DLL generation is broken; write at least a basic test
 - bug: stress testing basic method example (eval example) 
   without ``-d:relase`` leaks memory; good way to figure out how a 
   fixed amount of stack can hold an arbitrary number of GC roots!
@@ -73,10 +68,9 @@ version 0.9.XX
 - implicit ref/ptr->var conversion; the compiler may store an object
   implicitly on the heap for write barrier efficiency; better: 
   proc specialization in the code gen
-- adapt thread var emulation to care about the new merge operation
 - EcmaScript needs a new and better code gen: simply adapt the C code gen to it
 - tlastmod returns wrong results on BSD (Linux, MacOS X: works)
-- nested tuple unpacking
+- nested tuple unpacking; tuple unpacking in non-var-context
 - 'nimrod def': does not always work?
 - test branch coverage
 - checked exceptions
@@ -128,6 +122,7 @@ Low priority
 - resizing of strings/sequences could take into account the memory that
   is allocated
 - timeout for locks
+- adapt thread var emulation to care about the new merge operation
 
 
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