Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2004-11-27
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : gambc
Version : 4.0
Upstream Author : Marc Feeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www-perso.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/
* License : Apache Version 2
Description : Gambit-C Scheme Interpreter and Compiler
I intend to package Gambit-C Scheme Release 4. The previous package,
gambc, was Gambit-C 3.0, which was orphaned and later removed from
Debian, see Bug 153884. There had not been an upstream release since
1998.
This software is Copyright (C) 1994-2004 by Marc Feeley, all rights reserved.
Gambit-C release 4 includes a Scheme interpreter and a Scheme compiler
which can be used to build standalone executables. Because the
compiler generates portable C code it is fairly easy to port to any
platform with a decent C compiler.
The Gambit-C system conforms to the R4RS and IEEE Scheme standards.
The full numeric tower is implemented, including: infinite precision
integers (bignums), rationals, inexact reals (floating point numbers),
and complex numbers. Gambit-C supports a number of extensions to the
standards including:
- an optimizing compiler
- with several powerful transformations (automatic function inlining,
partial evaluation, etc)
- that generates properly tail-recursive portable C code
- a scalable thread system that can handle millions of concurrent threads
- an I/O system fully integrated with the thread system that supports
- regular files
- ttys (terminals and serial ports)
- sockets (tcp-client and tcp-server)
- directories
- processes
- pipes
- an infix syntax extension (SIX) that allows mixing code in the
standard prefix syntax with code in a C-like syntax
- the following SRFIs:
- SRFI 0 (Feature-based conditional expansion construct)
- SRFI 4 (Homogeneous numeric vector datatypes)
- SRFI 6 (Basic String Ports)
- SRFI 8 (RECEIVE: Binding to multiple values)
- SRFI 9 (Defining Record Types)
- SRFI 18 (Multithreading support)
- SRFI 21 (Real-time multithreading support)
- SRFI 22 (Running Scheme Scripts on Unix)
- SRFI 23 (Error reporting mechanism)
- SRFI 27 (Sources of Random Bits)
- SRFI 39 (Parameter objects)
- a REPL/debugger with
- a continuation inspection facility (i.e. "backtrace")
- a single-stepping mode
- error messages with location of error (file, line, and column number)
- emacs compatible line-editing with history
- very efficient bignum implementation
- a foreign function interface for C
- a memory management system that grows and shrinks the heap based on
the program's needs
- a linker that builds standalone executables and shared libraries
- dynamic loading of compiled modules and libraries (supported on many
platforms)
- Unicode support for characters, strings, I/O and source code
- object finalization
- pretty printing
- keyword objects
- optional and keyword parameters (with the syntax and semantics of DSSSL)
- configurable reader with control over case sensitivity
- write/read invariance of symbols, e.g. (string->symbol "B;123") => |B;123|
- write/read invariance of floating point numbers
- unhygienic macros
- and many other things!
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux thirdcreek.com 2.4.20-020stab009.24.777-enterprise #1 SMP Tue Aug
17 13:20:56 MSD 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
