(what will be) A scheme compiler

The bootstrap directory contains the following: bootstrap.c is a bootstrap interpreter for scheme, intended for bootstraping compile/compile.scm (currently non-existant because git doeesn't track empty directories). prims.c contains the primitive procedures for the bootstrapper lib.scm implements a standard library for the bootstrapper to run.

To test, type at a terminal:

$ make
$ ./bootstrap/bootstrap
> (load "bootstrap/lib.scm")

prims.c currently defines:

• char->integer
• integer->char
• number->string
• string->number
• symbol->string
• string->symbol
• boolean?
• char?
• integer?
• pair?
• symbol?
• procedure?
• string?
• port?
• quotient
• remainder
• =
• <
• cons
• car
• cdr
• set-car!
• set-cdr!
• eq?
• string-append
• apply
• eval
• exit
• interaction-enviroment
• enviroment
• null-enviroment
• open-input-file
• read-char
• unread-char (non-standard) - (unread-char char port) pushes a character back to an input port
• eof-object?
• close-input-file
• read
• load
• open-output-file (takes a non-standard optional second argument a symbol indicating what to di if it already exists: overwrite or append. Default is overwrite.)
• close-output-file
• write-char
• write
• display
• error
• string-append
• system (non-standard) - excecutes shell code
• gensym

bootstrap.c currently recognises the following special forms:

• if
• set!
• define
• quote
• lambda
• begin
• cond, including =>
• let
• and
• or
• declare (non-standard) - ignored by the interpreter, the compiler will use them to aid compilation

bootstrap/lib.scm defines:

• number?
• list
• not
• append (varadic version)
• length
• reverse
• vector? (always false)
• range
• map
• filter
• foldl
• foldr
• accumulate
• all c...r functions
• memq
• memv

The following (non-standard) variable is availiable on startup:

• args - command line arguments

Currently tested on Ubuntu only. SHOULD work on all OSs currently (though untested) but I only plan to support unix.