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Probably a legit macro system.
Any ideas on how it should look? Perhaps there are good examples in non lisp languages which have good systems, though i haven't tried them to know which is good.
Some handy little things: 1. Standard library support for safe arithmetic (easily capturing overflows, underflows, and so forth). 2. Standard library support for threading and synchronization primitives. 3. Mandated tail-call optimization through pragmas or perhaps just requiring it in the spec. 4. Create explicit and differentiated arithmetic and logical shift left and shift right. 5. Add a standard way of specifyin…