PLT MzScheme: Language Manual
December 2002
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1 Introduction
1.1 MrEd, DrScheme, and mzc
1.2 Notation
2 Basic Syntax Extensions
2.1 Evaluation Order
2.2 Multiple Return Values
2.3 Cond and Case
2.4 When and Unless
2.5 And and Or
2.6 Sequences
2.7 Quote and Quasiquote
2.8 Binding Forms
2.8.1 Global Variables
2.8.2 Local Variables
2.8.3 Assignments
2.8.4 Fluid-Let
2.8.5 Syntax Expansion and Internal Definitions
2.9 Case-Lambda
2.10 Procedure Application
3 Basic Data Extensions
3.1 Void and Undefined
3.2 Booleans
3.3 Numbers
3.4 Characters
3.5 Strings
3.6 Symbols
3.7 Vectors
3.8 Lists
3.9 Boxes
3.10 Procedures
3.10.1 Arity
3.10.2 Primitives
3.10.3 Procedure Names
3.11 Promises
3.12 Hash Tables
4 Structures
4.1 Defining Structure Types
4.2 Creating Subtypes
4.3 Structure Types with Automatic Fields and Properties
4.4 Structures as Procedures
4.5 Structure Type Properties
4.6 Structure Inspectors
4.7 Structure Utilities
5 Modules
5.1 Module Expansion and Execution
5.2 Module Bodies
5.3 Modules and Macros
5.4 Module Paths
5.4.1 Module Name Resolver
5.4.2 Module Names and Compilation
5.5 Dynamic Module Access
5.6 Re-declaring Modules
5.7 Built-in Modules
5.8 Modules and Load Handlers
6 Exceptions and Control Flow
6.1 Exceptions
6.1.1 Primitive Exceptions
6.2 Errors
6.2.1 Application Type Errors
6.2.2 Application Mismatch Errors
6.2.3 Syntax Errors
6.2.4 Inferred Value Names
6.3 Continuations
6.4 Dynamic Wind
6.5 Continuation Marks
6.6 Breaks
6.7 Error Escape Handler
7 Threads
7.1 Thread Utilities
7.2 Semaphores
7.3 Synchronizing Multiple Objects with Timeout
7.4 Parameters
7.4.1 Built-in Parameters
7.4.1.1 Current Directory
7.4.1.2 Ports
7.4.1.3 Parsing
7.4.1.4 Printing
7.4.1.5 Read-Eval-Print
7.4.1.6 Loading
7.4.1.7 Exceptions
7.4.1.8 Security
7.4.1.9 Exiting
7.4.1.10 Random Numbers
7.4.1.11 Locale
7.4.1.12 Modules
7.4.2 Parameter Utilities
8 Namespaces
8.1 Identifier Resolution in Namespaces
8.2 Initial Namespace
8.3 Namespace Utilities
9 Security
9.1 Security Guards
9.2 Custodians
11 Input and Output
11.1 Ports
11.1.1 Current Ports
11.1.2 Opening File Ports
11.1.3 Pipes
11.1.4 String Ports
11.1.5 File-Stream Ports
11.1.6 Custom Ports
11.1.6.1 Custom Input
11.1.6.2 Custom Output
11.2 Reading and Writing
11.2.1 Reading
11.2.2 Writing
11.2.3 Counting Positions, Lines, and Columns
11.2.4 Customizing Read
11.2.5 Customizing Display, Write, and Print
11.3 Filesystem Utilities
11.3.1 Pathnames
11.3.2 Files
11.3.3 Directories
11.4 Networking
12 Syntax and Macros
12.1 syntax-rules Extensions
12.2 Syntax Objects
12.2.1 Syntax Patterns
12.2.1.1 Binding Pattern Variables
12.2.1.2 Quasiquoting Templates
12.2.1.3 Assigning Source Location
12.2.2 Syntax Object Content
12.3 Syntax and Lexical Scope
12.3.1 Syntax Object Comparisons
12.3.2 Syntax Object Bindings
12.3.3 Transformer Environments
12.3.4 Module Environments
12.4 Binding Multiple and Fluid Syntax Identifiers
12.5 Special Syntax Identifiers
12.6 Macro Expansion
12.6.1 Expanding Expressions to Primitive Syntax
12.6.2 Syntax Object Properties
12.6.3 Information on Structure Types
12.6.4 Information on Expanded and Compiled Modules
13 Memory Management
13.1 Weak Boxes
13.2 Will Executors
13.3 Garbage Collection
14 Support Facilities
14.1 Eval and Load
14.2 Exiting
14.3 Input Parsing
14.4 Output Printing
14.5 Data Sharing in Input and Output
14.6 Compilation
14.7 Dynamic Extensions
14.8 Saving and Restoring Program Images
15 System Utilities
15.1 Time
15.1.1 Real Time and Date
15.1.2 Machine Time
15.1.3 Timing Execution
15.2 Operating System Processes
15.3 Windows Actions
15.4 Operating System Environment Variables
15.5 Runtime Information
16 Library Collections and MzLib
17 Running MzScheme
17.1 Flag Conventions
17.2 Executable Name
17.3 Initialization
18 Writing and Running Scripts
Copyright notice
| Copyright ©1995-2002 Matthew Flatt |
Permission to make digital/hard copies and/or distribute this documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice, author, and this permission notice appear in all copies of this documentation.
libscheme: Copyright ©1994 Brent Benson. All rights reserved.
Conservative garbage collector: Copyright ©1988, 1989 Hans-J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers. Copyright ©1991-1996 by Xerox Corporation. Copyright ©1996-1999 by Silicon Graphics. Copyright ©1999-2001 by Hewlett Packard Company. All rights reserved.
Collector C++ extension by Jesse Hull and John Ellis: Copyright ©1994 by Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved. GNU MP Library: Copyright ©1992, 1993, 1994, 1996 by Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Thanks
Thanks to Brent Benson for libscheme, and to Hans Boehm for the conservative garbage collector and their help.
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