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Revised(5) Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme
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RICHARD KELSEY, WILLIAM CLINGER, AND JONATHAN REES (Editors)
H. ABELSON R. K. DYBVIG C. T. HAYNES G. J. ROZAS
N. I. ADAMS IV D. P. FRIEDMAN E. KOHLBECKER G. L. STEELE JR.
D. H. BARTLEY R. HALSTEAD D. OXLEY G. J. SUSSMAN
G. BROOKS C. HANSON K. M. PITMAN M. WAND
Dedicated to the Memory of Robert Hieb
Summary
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The report gives a defining description of the programming language
Scheme. Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive
dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele
Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. It was designed to have an exceptionally
clear and simple semantics and few different ways to form expressions.
A wide variety of programming paradigms, including imperative,
functional, and message passing styles, find convenient expression in
Scheme.
The introduction offers a brief history of the language and of the
report.
The first three chapters present the fundamental ideas of the language
and describe the notational conventions used for describing the
language and for writing programs in the language.
Chapters Expressions and Program structure describe the
syntax and semantics of expressions, programs, and definitions.
Chapter Standard procedures describes Scheme's built-in
procedures, which include all of the language's data manipulation and
input/output primitives.
Chapter Formal syntax and semantics provides a formal syntax
for Scheme written in extended BNF, along with a formal denotational
semantics. An example of the use of the language follows the formal
syntax and semantics.
The report concludes with a list of references and an alphabetic index.
Contents
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* Introduction
* Overview of Scheme
* Lexical conventions
* Basic concepts
* Expressions
* Program structure
* Standard procedures
* Formal syntax and semantics
* Notes
* Additional material
* Example
* Bibliography
* Index
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