[gambit-list] R6RS

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Sat Dec 21 18:28:13 EST 2019


Petit Larceny is a version of Larceny that compiles to C.

On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 4:03 PM Lassi Kortela <lassi at lassi.io> wrote:

> > b) Those which retrofitted R6RS into an existing implementation but did
> > not contribute: Guile.
> >
> > c) Those written after R6RS that (I think) were concerned to implement
> > the latest standard: Ikarus/Vicare, Iron, Loko, Mosh, Sagittarius,
> > Ypsilon.  In addition, Biwa implements only the base library and a
> > handful of others.
> >
> > From which I think we may conclude that retrofitting R6RS is not a
> > popular thing to do.
>
> R6RS is quite a big language and there are already so many good
> implementations of it that new ones might not have much to add. Same
> situation as with Common Lisp. R7RS is such a small language that all
> kinds of niche implementations are interesting and useful to explore.
>
> Curiously, I can't think of a single R6RS->C compiler. There are
> interpreters and a few native-code compilers, but no compile-via-C.
>
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