Package kawa.lang

Core Kawa classes for Scheme and Lisp compile-time.

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Description

Class Summary

AnyPat	A pattern that matches anything.
AutoloadProcedure	Implement autoloading of Procedures.
AutoloadSyntax	Implement autoloading of Syntax (including macros).
CompileFile	Procedure to read and compile and entire file.
Continuation	A Continuation "represents an entire (default) future for the computation.
EqualPat	A pattern that requires an exact match (using equal?).
Eval
GetFieldProc
Lambda	The Syntax transformer that re-writes the lambda builtin.
ListPat	Match a list whose length in in the range [min_length..max_length].
ListRepeatPat
loadcompiled
Macro
PairPat
Pattern	A Pattern is used to match against objects.
PatternScope	Bindings from a syntax-case/syntax-rules pattern.
Promise	Implement Scheme "promises".
Quote	The Syntax transformer that re-writes the "quote" "quasiquote" primitive.
Record
RecordConstructor
SetFieldProc
Syntax	Abstract class for "syntax" objects.
SyntaxForm	A "syntatic closure" - a syntax form with its compilation environment.
SyntaxPattern	This encodes a pattern from a Scheem syntax-case or syntax-rules.
SyntaxRule	A rule in an R5RS syntax-template.
SyntaxRules
SyntaxTemplate	The translated form of a (syntax template).
TemplateScope	A scope created when expanding a SyntaxTemplate.
Translator	Used to translate from source to Expression.
VarListPat	A Pattern that will match a list of a given minimum length.

Exception Summary

CalledContinuation
GenericError
NamedException	Used to implement catch/throw named handlers as in Guile: (catch 'key (lambda () ...

Package kawa.lang Description

Core Kawa classes for Scheme and Lisp compile-time.

Most of these classes default with syntax- and macro-expansion of Scheme and Lisp-like languages.

This package dates back to the original Milowski verson of Kawa. The classes here could plausibly be moved to lispexpr.