The Scheme Programming Language

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The Scheme Programming Language

Fourth Edition

R. Kent Dybvig

Illustrations by Jean-Pierre Hébert

Table of Contents

    * Preface

    * Chapter 1. Introduction
          o Section 1.1. Scheme Syntax
          o Section 1.2. Scheme Naming Conventions
          o Section 1.3. Typographical and Notational Conventions 

    * Chapter 2. Getting Started
          o Section 2.1. Interacting with Scheme
          o Section 2.2. Simple Expressions
          o Section 2.3. Evaluating Scheme Expressions
          o Section 2.4. Variables and Let Expressions
          o Section 2.5. Lambda Expressions
          o Section 2.6. Top-Level Definitions
          o Section 2.7. Conditional Expressions
          o Section 2.8. Simple Recursion
          o Section 2.9. Assignment 

    * Chapter 3. Going Further
          o Section 3.1. Syntactic Extension
          o Section 3.2. More Recursion
          o Section 3.3. Continuations
          o Section 3.4. Continuation Passing Style
          o Section 3.5. Internal Definitions
          o Section 3.6. Libraries 

    * Chapter 4. Procedures and Variable Bindings
          o Section 4.1. Variable References
          o Section 4.2. Lambda
          o Section 4.3. Case-Lambda
          o Section 4.4. Local Binding
          o Section 4.5. Multiple Values
          o Section 4.6. Variable Definitions
          o Section 4.7. Assignment 

    * Chapter 5. Control Operations
          o Section 5.1. Procedure Application
          o Section 5.2. Sequencing
          o Section 5.3. Conditionals
          o Section 5.4. Recursion and Iteration
          o Section 5.5. Mapping and Folding
          o Section 5.6. Continuations
          o Section 5.7. Delayed Evaluation
          o Section 5.8. Multiple Values
          o Section 5.9. Eval 

    * Chapter 6. Operations on Objects
          o Section 6.1. Constants and Quotation
          o Section 6.2. Generic Equivalence and Type Predicates
          o Section 6.3. Lists and Pairs
          o Section 6.4. Numbers
          o Section 6.5. Fixnums
          o Section 6.6. Flonums
          o Section 6.7. Characters
          o Section 6.8. Strings
          o Section 6.9. Vectors
          o Section 6.10. Bytevectors
          o Section 6.11. Symbols
          o Section 6.12. Booleans
          o Section 6.13. Hashtables
          o Section 6.14. Enumerations 

    * Chapter 7. Input and Output
          o Section 7.1. Transcoders
          o Section 7.2. Opening Files
          o Section 7.3. Standard Ports
          o Section 7.4. String and Bytevector Ports
          o Section 7.5. Opening Custom Ports
          o Section 7.6. Port Operations
          o Section 7.7. Input Operations
          o Section 7.8. Output Operations
          o Section 7.9. Convenience I/O
          o Section 7.10. Filesystem Operations
          o Section 7.11. Bytevector/String Conversions 

    * Chapter 8. Syntactic Extension
          o Section 8.1. Keyword Bindings
          o Section 8.2. Syntax-Rules Transformers
          o Section 8.3. Syntax-Case Transformers
          o Section 8.4. Examples 

    * Chapter 9. Records
          o Section 9.1. Defining Records
          o Section 9.2. Procedural Interface
          o Section 9.3. Inspection 

    * Chapter 10. Libraries and Top-Level Programs
          o Section 10.1. Standard Libraries
          o Section 10.2. Defining New Libraries
          o Section 10.3. Top-Level Programs
          o Section 10.4. Examples 

    * Chapter 11. Exceptions and Conditions
          o Section 11.1. Raising and Handling Exceptions
          o Section 11.2. Defining Condition Types
          o Section 11.3. Standard Condition Types 

    * Chapter 12. Extended Examples
          o Section 12.1. Matrix and Vector Multiplication
          o Section 12.2. Sorting
          o Section 12.3. A Set Constructor
          o Section 12.4. Word Frequency Counting
          o Section 12.5. Scheme Printer
          o Section 12.6. Formatted Output
          o Section 12.7. A Meta-Circular Interpreter for Scheme
          o Section 12.8. Defining Abstract Objects
          o Section 12.9. Fast Fourier Transform
          o Section 12.10. A Unification Algorithm
          o Section 12.11. Multitasking with Engines 

    * References

    * Answers to Selected Exercises

    * Formal Syntax

    * Summary of Forms

    * Index

Online:

http://www.scheme.com/tspl4/