[gambit-list] Rapid Scheme, an R7RS Scheme in R7RS Scheme

Joe Doyle Ardent gambit at ardent.nebcorp.com
Tue Jul 19 11:30:06 EDT 2016


	I came across this yesterday, and thought it was interesting:

https://www.rapid-scheme.org/

On the about page, it points out the benefits of doing this sort of 
metacircular implementation.  One of the points it makes is:

"Compiler writers can use Rapid Scheme as a front-end of a standalone 
implementation of R7RS. In particular, it should be relatively easy to 
combine an existing implementation of an earlier report such as R5RS 
with Rapid Scheme to produce a stand-alone implementation of R7RS."

And lo!  Gambit Scheme can now compile R7RS code:

https://www.rapid-scheme.org/news/backend/porting/2016/07/09/rapid-gambit.html


-Joe



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