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dyb 09366c6247 - the $case macro used by r6rs:case and case now unconditionally trims
redundant keys and expands into exclusive-cond rather than cond.
  it catches references to => before expanding into exclusive-cond
  to avoid supporting => as an undocumented and useless extension
  of the case syntax.  the r6rs:case and case macros now require
  multiple clauses rather than leaving the enforcement to exclusive-cond,
  and the exclusive-cond macro now requires multiple clauses rather
  than leaving the enforcement to cond.
    syntax.ss,
    4.ms, root-experr*, patch*

original commit: 303921d8515b101c558a056dcf9c05f7cad97f4a
2017-10-13 14:33:32 -04:00
c - updated version to 9.5.1 2017-10-11 19:57:53 -04:00
csug no longer using replacements for \tt underscore, tilde, at-sign, dots, 2017-10-12 23:48:32 -04:00
examples more version number updates 2017-10-12 10:05:30 -04:00
makefiles - updated version to 9.5.1 2017-10-11 19:57:53 -04:00
mats - the $case macro used by r6rs:case and case now unconditionally trims 2017-10-13 14:33:32 -04:00
nanopass@1f7e80bcff latest nanopass 2016-06-27 09:45:20 -04:00
release_notes no longer using replacements for \tt underscore, tilde, at-sign, dots, 2017-10-12 23:48:32 -04:00
s - the $case macro used by r6rs:case and case now unconditionally trims 2017-10-13 14:33:32 -04:00
stex@3bd2b86cc5 - compile-whole-program and compile-whole-library now copy the hash-bang 2016-05-04 20:35:38 -04:00
unicode initial upload of open-source release 2016-04-26 10:04:54 -04:00
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.gitignore - Cygwin is now used on Windows, updated mats, eliminated unused killme 2016-06-10 10:07:07 -04:00
.gitmodules - compile-whole-program and compile-whole-library now copy the hash-bang 2016-05-04 20:35:38 -04:00
.travis.yml Re-enabling the other build types. 2017-03-12 14:51:09 -04:00
bintar - updated version to 9.5.1 2017-10-11 19:57:53 -04:00
BUILDING - Added setting of CHEZSCHEMELIBDIRS to s and mats make files so that 2017-10-12 09:47:58 -04:00
CHARTER.md initial upload of open-source release 2016-04-26 10:04:54 -04:00
checkin changed copyright year to 2017 2017-04-06 11:41:33 -04:00
configure updated to handle the case when a submodule directory is missing. 2017-10-12 22:51:39 -04:00
CONTRIBUTING.md - added custom install options. workarea creates an empty config.h, 2016-05-06 18:30:06 -04:00
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LOG - the $case macro used by r6rs:case and case now unconditionally trims 2017-10-13 14:33:32 -04:00
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NOTICE - updated version to 9.5.1 2017-10-11 19:57:53 -04:00
README.md expanded on TSPL a bit 2016-06-01 14:24:10 -04:00
scheme.1.in - updated version to 9.5.1 2017-10-11 19:57:53 -04:00
workarea - updated version to 9.5.1 2017-10-11 19:57:53 -04:00

Chez Scheme is both a programming language and an implementation of that language, with supporting tools and documentation.

As a superset of the language described in the Revised6 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (R6RS), Chez Scheme supports all standard features of Scheme, including first-class procedures, proper treatment of tail calls, continuations, user-defined records, libraries, exceptions, and hygienic macro expansion.

Chez Scheme also includes extensive support for interfacing with C and other languages, support for multiple threads possibly running on multiple cores, non-blocking I/O, and many other features.

The Chez Scheme implementation consists of a compiler, run-time system, and programming environment. Although an interpreter is available, all code is compiled by default. Source code is compiled on-the-fly when loaded from a source file or entered via the shell. A source file can also be precompiled into a stored binary form and automatically recompiled when its dependencies change. Whether compiling on the fly or precompiling, the compiler produces optimized machine code, with some optimization across separately compiled library boundaries. The compiler can also be directed to perform whole-program compilation, which does full cross-library optimization and also reduces a program and the libraries upon which it depends to a single binary.

The run-time system interfaces with the operating system and supports, among other things, binary and textual (Unicode) I/O, automatic storage management (dynamic memory allocation and generational garbage collection), library management, and exception handling. By default, the compiler is included in the run-time system, allowing programs to be generated and compiled at run time, and storage for dynamically compiled code, just like any other dynamically allocated storage, is automatically reclaimed by the garbage collector.

The programming environment includes a source-level debugger, a mechanism for producing HTML displays of profile counts and program "hot spots" when profiling is enabled during compilation, tools for inspecting memory usage, and an interactive shell interface (the expression editor, or "expeditor" for short) that supports multi-line expression editing.

The R6RS core of the Chez Scheme language is described in The Scheme Programming Language, which also includes an introduction to Scheme and a set of example programs. Chez Scheme's additional language, run-time system, and programming environment features are described in the Chez Scheme User's Guide. The latter includes a shared index and a shared summary of forms, with links where appropriate to the former, so it is often the best starting point.

Get started with Chez Scheme by Building Chez Scheme.

For more information see the Chez Scheme Project Page.