plot

Plot is a toy scheme interpreter written in C.

Plot is aiming for r7rs-small (WG1) compliance.

Plot is only ever intended to be a toy language and a purely academic pursuit, I hope to eventually play around with writing simple applications in plot.

Please note that I will most likely not be accepting pull requests as this project is primarily for my learning. I will also be force pushing here often, so no getting upset.

naming

plot - Noun; A plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful

current state

For an up-to-date summary or plot's implementation status see docs/r7rs-small-compliance.md

brief summary of r7rs library implementation status (see make compliance):

    ./build/compliance.pl
    base: 100 / 237 (42%)
    case-lambda: 0 / 1 (0%)
    char: 17 / 22 (77%)
    complex: 0 / 6 (0%)
    cxr: 0 / 24 (0%)
    eval: 0 / 2 (0%)
    file: 2 / 10 (20%)
    inexact: 0 / 12 (0%)
    lazy: 4 / 5 (80%)
    load: 0 / 1 (0%)
    r5rs: 106 / 217 (48%)
    read: 0 / 1 (0%)
    repl: 0 / 1 (0%)
    time: 0 / 3 (0%)
    write: 1 / 4 (25%)

    total: 230 / 546 (42%)

NB: the above conformance report is measuring functions that are exposed to plot programs, many of those functions may still be lacking complete implementation.

example: (see make example)

(define (println v)
  (display v)
  (newline))

(define adder
  (lambda (b)
    (lambda (c)
      (+ b c))))

(define tmp (adder 10))
(println (tmp 15)) ;; => 25

(define b (* (- 12 3) 4 5 6))
(println b) ;; => 1080

(println (<= 1 1 2 3 5 10)) ;; => #t

(println (/ 10 2 2)) ;; 10/2 = 5; 5/2 = 2; => 2

(println (procedure? display)) ;; => #t

(println (if #t "hello there" (illegal))) ;; => hello there

planned work

Plot is aiming for (mostly) r7rs-small (WG1) compliance.

The current planned exception is to omit continuations.

For a more accurate picture please see docs/r7rs-small-compliance.md.

dependencies

libc
lib check is used for unit testing, in debian derived systems this is simply 'check' (sudo apt-get install check)
perl is used as part of the build process to generate bindings between scheme functions and their c implementations

running

Plot is still in it's infancy so does not yet offer an automatic installation method.

You are able to compile and run plot manually though:

git clone git@github.com:mkfifo/plot.git
cd plot
make
./plot t/example.scm

license

Plot is released under the terms of the MIT License