Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days
Teach
Yourself
Scheme
in
Fixnum
Days
by
Dorai Sitaram
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Contents
Preface
1Enter Scheme
2Data types
2.1 Simple data types
2.1.1 Booleans
2.1.2 Numbers
2.1.3 Characters
2.1.4 Symbols
2.2 Compound data types
2.2.1 Strings
2.2.2 Vectors
2.2.3 Dotted pairs and lists
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2.2.4 Conversions between data types
2.3 Other data types
2.4 S-expressions
3Forms
3.1 Procedures
3.1.1 Procedure parameters
3.1.2 Variable number of arguments
3.2 apply
3.3 Sequencing
4Conditionals
4.1 when and unless
4.2 cond
4.3 case
4.4 and and or
5Lexical variables
5.1 let and let*
5.2 fluid-let
6Recursion
6.1 letrec
6.2 Named let
6.3 Iteration
6.4 Mapping a procedure across a list
7I/O
7.1 Reading
7.2 Writing
7.3 File ports
7.3.1 Automatic opening and closing of file ports 7.4 String ports
7.5 Loading files
8Macros
8.1 Specifying the expansion as a template
8.2 Avoiding variable capture inside macros
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8.3 fluid-let
9Structures
9.1 Default initializations
9.2 defstruct defined
10Alists and tables
11System interface
11.1 Checking for and deleting files
11.2 Calling operating-system commands
11.3 Environment variables
12 Objects and classes
12.1 A simple object system
12.2 Classes are instances too
12.3 Multiple inheritance
13 Jumps
13.1 call-with-current-continuation
13.2 Escaping continuations
13.3 Tree matching
13.4 Coroutines
13.4.1 Tree-matching with coroutines
14 Nondeterminism
14.1 Description of amb
14.2 Implementing amb in Scheme
14.3 Using amb in Scheme
14.4 Logic puzzles
14.4.1 The Kalotan puzzle
14.4.2 Map coloring
15 Engines
15.1 The clock
15.2 Flat engines
15.3 Nestable engines
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16 Shell scripts
16.1 Hello, World!, again
16.2 Scripts with arguments
16.3 Example
17 CGI scripts
17.1 Example: Displaying environment variables
17.2 Example: Displaying selected environment variable
17.3 CGI script utilities
17.4 A calculator via CGI
A Scheme dialects
A.1 Invocation
A.2 Init files
A.3 Shell scripts
A.4 define-macro
A.5 load-relative
BDOS batch files in Scheme
CA clock for infinity
DReferences
EIndex
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