Re: A handful of LISP questions

Martin Rodgers <mcr@nerdware.org>
Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:42:58 +0100

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From:	Martin Rodgers <mcr@nerdware.org>
Newsgroups:	comp.compilers
Date:	Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:42:58 +0100
Organization:	Compilers Central
References:	07-06-033
Keywords:	Lisp, parse
Posted-Date:	19 Jun 2007 10:27:45 EDT

tactics wrote:

> If I think of any more questions, I'll post them here. I hope someone
> can give me some good advice on these topics.

Firstly, the Scheme FAQ entry [1-4] Where can I learn about implementing
Scheme interpreters and compilers?
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/scheme-faq/part1/section-4.html

If you don't mind reading a little Haskell code, there's a tutorial on
writing a Scheme interpreter.
http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/~jdtang/scheme_in_48/tutorial/overview.html

The parser section may be of particular interest to you.
http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/~jdtang/scheme_in_48/tutorial/parser.html

You can also learn a lot by studying a good, clean implementation. I
recommend SCM, as its written in C and isn't so heavily optimised that
the code obscures the basic concepts.
http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SCM.html

Here's a pretty complete Scheme parser written in Perl.
http://search.cpan.org/~sfink/parrot-0.0.11.2/languages/scheme/Scheme/Parser.pm
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