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README.md

This product is developed at the second-grade course, Informatic Science
Basic Experiment class at the University of Tokyo.

Picrin - a lightweight scheme interpreter

Features

  • R7RS compatibility (but partial support)
  • reentrant design (all VM states are stored in single global state object)
  • bytecode interpreter (based on Stack VM technology)
  • direct threaded VM
  • Internal representation by Nan-Boxing
  • conservative call/cc implementation (users can freely interleave native stack with VM stack)
  • exact GC (simple mark and sweep strategy)
  • advanced REPL support (multi-line input, etc)
  • tiny & portable library (all functions will be in libpicrin.so)

Supported Range

section status comments
2.2 Whitespace and comments incomplete block comments are not implemented
2.3 Other notations incomplete #e #i #b #o #d #x
2.4 Datum labels no unsupported
3.1 Variables, syntactic keywords, and regions
3.2 Disjointness of types yes
3.3 External representations
3.4 Storage model yes
3.5 Proper tail recursion incomplete apply, call/cc, call/values, eval are not yet
4.1.1 Variable references yes
4.1.2 Literal expressions yes (quote <datum> )
4.1.3 Procedure calls yes In picrin () is self-evaluating
4.1.4 Procedures yes (lambda <fomals> <body>)
4.1.5 Conditionals yes (if <test> <consequent> [ <alternate> ]). In picrin (if #f #f) returns #f
4.1.6 Assignments yes (set! <var> <expr>)
4.1.7 Inclusion no include and include-ci
4.2.1 Conditionals incomplete TODO: cond-expand
4.2.2 Binding constructs incomplete TODO: let-values, let*-values
4.2.3 Sequencing yes
4.2.4 Iteration no
4.2.5 Delayed evaluation N/A
4.2.6 Dynamic bindings no TODO: make-parameter, parameterize in C level
4.2.7 Exception handling no guard syntax.
4.2.8 Quasiquotation incomplete nested is unsupported
4.2.9 Case-lambda N/A
4.3.1 Bindings constructs for syntactic keywords no Instead, picrin provides so-called legacy macro facility (define-macro).
4.3.2 Pattern language no see above.
4.3.3 Signaling errors in macro transformers no see above.
5.1 Programs yes
5.2 Import declarations no
5.3.1 Top level definitions yes
5.3.2 Internal definitions no
5.3.3 Multiple-value definitions no
5.4 Syntax definitions no see notes on section 4.3.1.
5.5 Recored-type definitions no
5.6.1 Library Syntax no
5.6.2 Library example N/A
5.7 The REPL yes

Homepage

Currently picrin is hosted on Github. You can freely send a bug report or pull-request, and fork the repository.

https://github.com/wasabiz/picrin

How to use it

  • build

      $ make build
    

    built executable binary will be under bin/ directory and shared library libpicrin.so under lib/.

  • run

    Simply directly run the binary bin/picrin from terminal, or you can use make to execute it like this.

      $ make run
    
  • debug-run

    By default make command runs REPL with all debug flags enabled.

      $ make
    

In the default option, when make command is called without arguments, it builds the binary and right after that dropped into the picrin interactive shell (REPL).

  • install

    As of now picrin does not provide a command automatically installs the binary. If you want to place picrin library and binary in a parmanent directory, please do it by hand.

Requirement

picrin scheme depends on some external libraries to build the binary:

  • bison
  • yacc
  • make
  • gcc
  • readline

The compilation is tested only on Mac OSX. I think (or hope) it'll be ok to compile and run on other operating systems such as Linux or Windows, but there's no guarantee :(

Authors

Yuichi Nishiwaki (yuichi.nishiwaki at gmail.com)