[Caml-list] Schoca 0.0 - first release announcement

[Christoph Bauer <c_bauer@informatik.uni-kl.de>]

Hi,

Schoca is SCHeme for OCAml.

The initial release of schoca is available at 

   http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/chesslib/schoca-0.0.tar.bz2?download

Please note that this is an early alpha release of Schoca.  Please
report bugs, typos, etc.

README

Schoca --- Scheme for OCaml
---------------------------


Schoca is an implementation of the Scheme language. The primary
purpose of Schoca is the use as an embedded extension language in
OCaml applications (e.g. the ibgsclient).


Why Scheme?
-----------

Scheme is an easy, small, widely known and well-documented
language. There exists some (over Scheme implementations) portable 
libraries. With applications like Gimp and GnuCash it has been proven
that Scheme is a very useful extension language. Other applications (like
Emacs or AutoCAD) use other lisp dialects (elisp, AutoLisp).


Why another implementation of Scheme?
-------------------------------------

OCaml and Scheme need both a garbage collector (GC). With an
implementation of Scheme in OCaml both parts of the application are
using the same GC. This avoids easily a lot of troubles.

The extension language and the application itself are sharing some
code, e.g. for the handling of hashtables. This results in a smaller
size of the application binary.

Furthermore this solution doesn't require type conversion functions.
Scheme types are simple variant or record types.


How does it work?
------------------

Register new functions with

Enviroment.set env "name" (ML_EagerProcedure (fun args -> ... ))

Look in rep.ml.

[This section will be rewritten in the next release.]

Status (Version 0.0)
--------------------

Version 0.0 is a very early release. Expect not to much!

What works: look in r5rs-test.scm. 
What is missing:
   * proper tail recursion (planned for 0.1)
   * macros (planned for 0.2)
   * correct continuations (planned for 0.1)
   * recursive calls of "force" (cmp R5RS 6.4 and documentation about `Lazy.force')
      (does anybody need this?)
   * some library functions (planned for 0.2)
	[gcd, lcm, numerator, denominator, round, rationalize, atan, 
         make-rectangular, make-polar, magnitude, angle, char-alphabetic?,
   	 char-numeric?, char-whitespace?, char-upper-case?, char-lower-case?,
	 char-upcase, char-lowercase, string->list, list->string, vector-length,
	 vector->list, dynamic-wind, null-enviroment, interaction-enviroment, ...] 
   * most I/O Routines (planned for 0.1)
   * simple API for embeddeding (planned for 0.1)

There are no `immutable' string restrictions. (compare with R5RS
p. 30)

The license
-----------
GPL

Contact
-------

Schoca is part of the IBGS project:
http://sf.net/projects/chesslib

Please report bugs, send complains and suggestions, or donations ;-)

Author: Christoph Bauer <c_bauer@informatik.uni-kl.de>


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