Nausicaa for Scheme

Nausicaa for Scheme

This document describes version 0.2d14 of Nausicaa/Scheme, a set of Scheme libraries defining a slightly modified R6RS Scheme language and augmenting the features of the base and standard R6RS libraries.

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Copyright © 2008-2012 by Marco Maggi.
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This document embeds an unofficial assemblage of several documents reformatted in Texinfo; the reformatting author and maintainer is Marco Maggi marco.maggi-ipsu@poste.it. See the appendix “Credits” for the list of original documents and their authors. See also the README and CREDITS files for additional attributions.

• overview: Overview of Nausicaa/Scheme.
• scheme: The Scheme language.
• baselib: Base library.
• stdlib: Standard libraries.
• nausicaa: The (nausicaa) language.
• mehve: The (nausicaa mehve) language.

Libraries in the (nausicaa) language

• cond-expand: Feature-based conditional expansion.
• conditions: More condition types.
• lang: Simple language extensions.
• syntax utils: Syntax utilities.
• pretty-print: Pretty printing.
• parameters: Parameter objects.
• shared-structures: External representation for data with shared structure.
• sentinel: The sentinel value.
• getenv: Accessing system environment variables.
• configuration: Overall configuration.
• assertions: Organising assertions.
• contracts: Function call contracts.
• namespaces: Collecting bindings for expand time.
• makers: Maker syntaxes.
• identifier alists: Alist of identifiers.
• identifier properties: Expand--time identifier properties.
• symbols-tree: Search tree for lists of symbols.
• classes: Record utilities.
• generics: Multimethods dispatching.
• compensations: Compensation stacks.
• deferred exceptions: Deferred exceptions.
• matches: Pattern matching.
• printf: Simple string formatting.
• gensym: Generating unique symbols.
• finalisers: Finalising objects.

More language extensions

• type utils: Type utilities.
• enumerations: Enumeration sets utilities.
• iterators: Iterating over sequences.
• lists: Lists library.
• char-sets: Character sets library.
• asciis: ASCII characters library.
• strings: Strings library.
• vectors: Vectors library.
• bytevectors: Bytevectors.
• bitvectors: Bitvectors.
• pathnames: File pathnames.
• arrays: Multidimensional arrays.
• streams: Streams library.
• hooks: Running lists of functions.
• comparisons: Comparison functions.
• loops: Loop constructs.
• random: Sources of random bits.
• msgcat: Messages catalog for internationalisation.
• time: Time data types and procedures.
• format: Formatting strings.
• checks: Lightweight testing.
• debugging: Debugging utilities.
• queues: Simple queues.
• stacks: Simple stacks.
• object-properties: Object properties.
• cleanup-handlers: Cleaning up.
• combinators: Combinators.
• keywords: Keyword values.
• variables: Defining storage locations.
• refcount: Reference counting.
• getopts: Parsing command line arguments.
• submodules: Nested modules.
• eval: Evaluating code using eval.

More libraries

• irregex: IrRegular expressions.
• pregexp: Portable regular expressions for Scheme.
• email: Email processing.
• armor: ASCII armor encoding/decoding.
• net: Network--related libraries.
• uri: Uniform resource identifiers.
• levenshtein: Levenshtein distance metric.
• stdnum: Standard numbers.

Parsing tools

• lexical-tokens: Describing lexical tokens.
• silex: A lexical analyser generator.
• lalr: A LALR(1) parser generator.
• packrat: Packrat parser.
• r6rs: Tools for handling R6RS source code.
• infix: Infix notation utilities.
• csv: Comma--separated values (CSV) utilities.
• json: Parsing and generating JSON text.
• ssax: Symbolic expression--based XML parsing query conversion.

Low level libraries

• kmp: Knuth-Morris-Pratt searching.
• one-dimension: One dimensional extended ranges.

Appendices

• notes: Miscellaneous notes on everything.
• examples: Scheme programming examples.
• credits: Credits.
• Package License: GNU General Public License.
• Documentation License: GNU Free Documentation License.
• references: Bibliography and references.

Indexes

• concept index: An entry for each concept.
• function index: An entry for each function.
• variable index: An entry for each variable.
• type index: An entry for each type.