Bigloo

A practical Scheme compiler

User manual for version 3.7a

September 2011

{Manuel Serrano

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3.7a

Acknowledgements		Brief history and helpers
2 Overview of Bigloo		A brief summary of Bigloo facilities
3 Modules		Modules description
4 Core Language		Syntax, expressions and definitions
5 DSSSL support		DSSSL keyword and optional arguments
6 Standard Library		The Bigloo standard library
7 Pattern Matching		Non linear Bigloo pattern matching
8 Fast search		Fast string search algorithms.
9 Structures and Records		Various Record data types.
10 Object System		Documentation for the Bigloo object layer
11 Regular parsing		Pre-compiled regular grammars
12 Lalr(1) parsing		Pre-compiled Lalr grammars
13 Posix Regular Expressions
14 Command Line Parsing		Parsing binaries command line invocation
15 Cryptography
16 Errors, Assertions, and Traces		Bigloo error handling and Bigloo assertions
17 Threads		Bigloo multi-threading
18 Database		Database access
19 Multimedia		Multimedia programming
20 Mail		Mail related technologies
21 Text		Text processing facilities
22 Eval and code interpretation		Use of the interpreter
23 Macro expansion		The two available macro schemes
24 Parameters		Controlling the global programs behaviors
25 Explicit typing		Improving the compiler’s code quality
26 The C interface		Interfacing to C
27 The Java interface		Interfacing to Java
30 SRFIs		SRFIs supported by Bigloo
28 Bigloo Libraries		Creating and using your own libraries
29 Extending the Runtime System		Adding new primitive data types
31 Compiler description		Interfacing with the compiler
32 Cross Compilation		Compiling for different platforms
33 User Extensions		User compiler extensions
34 Bigloo Development Environment		The Bigloo development environment
35 Global Index		Global Bigloo document index
36 Library Index		Index for forms, functions and variables
Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Bigloo has been developed at Inria-Rocquencourt by the Icsla team from 1991 to 1994, at the University of Montreal in 1995 and at Digital’s Western Research laboratory in 1996, University of Geneva during 1997 and from the end of 1997 at the University of Nice.

I would like to express my gratitude to Hans J. Boehm for his Garbage Collector [BoehmWeiser88, Boehm91], Jean-Marie Geffroy for his pattern-matching compiler [QueinnecGeffroy92], Dominique Boucher for his Lalr grammar compiler, William Clinger for his syntax expansion implementation and Dorai Sitaram for his contribution with the pregexp package and its documentation. I also especially thank Christian Queinnec for all his useful remarks, help, suggestions and teaching.

Other people have helped me by providing useful remarks, bug fixes or code improvements. I thank all of them and especially Luc Moreau, John Gerard Malecki, David Halls and David Gurr.

I thank Barrie Stott for his help in making much of the documentation more idiomatic. Of course, any remaining errors are still mine.

This release of Bigloo may still contain bugs. If you notice any, please forgive me and send a mail message to the following address: bigloo@sophia.inria.fr.

New versions may be found at http://www.inria.fr/indes/fp/Bigloo.

This is Bigloo documentation version 3.7a, September 2011.

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