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                                            Jeff Bezanson

Better locations for catch blocks

I think this is due to a julia bug, fixed as part of https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/15583

use normal expression printer when we don't have source code

Alternative idea: don't vertically expand nodes that are "simple" according to some heuristic. For example `x = 1`, or calls whose child nodes are leaf nodes like symbols and numbers.

Stack overflow in the garbage collector

> projects have always > over the years How many projects are we talking about here?

Stack overflow in the garbage collector

Ok, so one project.

Stack overflow in the garbage collector

I would be happy to see a pull request fixing this. I do think there are trade-offs though --- we would need to use more heap space, and it might...

Stack overflow in the garbage collector

It seems to me the difference is breadth-first vs. depth-first order. Yes, I see breadth-first order might be better.

Compiler leaking globals when (define var) not direct member of a lambda

Thanks for finding this. Is there a reason not to use the corrected code in both the expander and compiler?

Unable to make femtolisp

Try replacing `-DLINUX` in `Makefile` with `-DMACOSX`. I should put that in the readme.

Unable to make femtolisp

Sorry about that. The same change is needed in `llt/Makefile`. Obviously some refactoring is needed.

Looks like `get_exename` at the bottom of `llt/dirpath.c` needs to be replaced for Mac. Could you try replacing the includes and function definition with one using `_NSGetExecutablePath`, documented here: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/dyld.3.html