Hello,
I am currently the lead developer on a student project that is doing an
independent implementation of *R7RS* Scheme in C++11. I am looking at other
Scheme implementations as we are currently tackling the first of the
primitive expressions, and I would love to see how other people do it.
We are taking a pointer-based tree model as our implementation for
simplicity. One of our tentative and internal goals for the project is to
create great documentation so that those that are looking into implementing
languages can begin to learn by looking at a simple evaluation model.
I would like to know:
- What should I read? I tried reading some of the Racket Manifesto, but
I care much more about the systems evaluation parts of the implemnetation
for C. Namely:
- Expressing Scheme types in C data structures
- Disjoint types as defined by some specification of Scheme
- Garbage collection vs. reference counting (we are using C++11's
*std::shared_ptr* for now for reference counting)
- Paradigms to storing and handling arbitrary lists and expressions
- Parsing input from characters & type of algorithm used
- What should be improved about the design of the C-based systems?
- I am also looking at Chez Scheme. I've taken a look at Chibi as
well, but it's really quite hard to find the design bits in the comments
and documentation.
- It's be great if I could find some presentations!
If you're gotten here, thank you for reading! We are a small group at the
University of Hawaii, and we would be glad to receive any sort of advice or
help!
Thank you,
Austin Tasato
UH Manoa Transpiler Project
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