Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Section 1.1. Chez Scheme Syntax
  • Section 1.2. Notational Conventions
  • Section 1.3. Parameters
  • Section 1.4. More Information

• Chapter 2. Using Chez Scheme
  • Section 2.1. Interacting with Chez Scheme
  • Section 2.2. Expression Editor
  • Section 2.3. Creating and Using Compiled Files
  • Section 2.4. Optimization
  • Section 2.5. Command-Line Options
  • Section 2.6. Scheme Shell Scripts
  • Section 2.7. Customization
  • Section 2.8. Building and Distributing Applications

• Chapter 3. Debugging
  • Section 3.1. Tracing
  • Section 3.2. The Interactive Debugger
  • Section 3.3. The Interactive Inspector
  • Section 3.4. The Object Inspector

• Chapter 4. Foreign Interface
  • Section 4.1. Subprocess Communication
  • Section 4.2. Foreign Procedures
  • Section 4.3. Providing Access to Foreign Procedures
  • Section 4.4. Using Other Foreign Languages
  • Section 4.5. Calling into Scheme
  • Section 4.6. C Library Routines
  • Section 4.7. Continuations and Foreign Calls
  • Section 4.8. Example: Socket Operations

• Chapter 5. Binding Forms
  • Section 5.1. Definitions
  • Section 5.2. Case-Lambda
  • Section 5.3. Recursive Bindings
  • Section 5.4. Multiple Values
  • Section 5.5. Fluid Bindings
  • Section 5.6. Top-Level Bindings

• Chapter 6. Control Structures
  • Section 6.1. Quasiquotation
  • Section 6.2. Conditionals
  • Section 6.3. Mapping and Folding
  • Section 6.4. Continuations
  • Section 6.5. Engines

• Chapter 7. Operations on Objects
  • Section 7.1. Generic Equivalence and Type Predicates
  • Section 7.2. Pairs and Lists
  • Section 7.3. Strings and Characters
  • Section 7.4. Vectors
  • Section 7.5. Fixnum-only vectors
  • Section 7.6. Boxes
  • Section 7.7. Symbols
  • Section 7.8. Booleans
  • Section 7.9. Void
  • Section 7.10. Sorting
  • Section 7.11. Hashtables
  • Section 7.12. Records

• Chapter 8. Numeric Operations
  • Section 8.1. Numeric Type Predicates
  • Section 8.2. Fixnum Operations
  • Section 8.3. Flonum Operations
  • Section 8.4. Inexact Complex Operations
  • Section 8.5. Bitwise and Logical Operators
  • Section 8.6. Random Number Generation
  • Section 8.7. Miscellaneous Numeric Operations

• Chapter 9. Input/Output Operations
  • Section 9.1. Generic Ports
  • Section 9.2. Port Operations
  • Section 9.3. String Ports
  • Section 9.4. Input Operations
  • Section 9.5. Output Operations
  • Section 9.6. Input/Output Operations
  • Section 9.7. Pretty Printing
  • Section 9.8. Formatted Output
  • Section 9.9. Input/Output Control Operations
  • Section 9.10. Fasl Output
  • Section 9.11. File System Interface
  • Section 9.12. Generic Port Examples

• Chapter 10. Syntactic Extension
  • Section 10.1. Expansion Process
  • Section 10.2. Keyword Bindings
  • Section 10.3. Syntax-Rules Transformers
  • Section 10.4. Syntax-Case Transformers
  • Section 10.5. Modules
  • Section 10.6. Built-in Modules
  • Section 10.7. Meta Definitions
  • Section 10.8. Conditional expansion
  • Section 10.9. Aliases

• Chapter 11. System Operations
  • Section 11.1. Errors, Interrupts, and Exceptions
  • Section 11.2. Environments
  • Section 11.3. Compilation, Evaluation, and Loading
  • Section 11.4. Source directories and files
  • Section 11.5. Compiler Controls
  • Section 11.6. Profiling
  • Section 11.7. Waiter Customization
  • Section 11.8. Times and Dates
  • Section 11.9. Timing and Statistics
  • Section 11.10. Parameters
  • Section 11.11. Environmental Queries and Settings
  • Section 11.12. Subset Modes

• Chapter 12. Storage Management
  • Section 12.1. Garbage Collection
  • Section 12.2. Weak Pairs and Guardians
  • Section 12.3. Locking Objects

• Chapter 13. Expression Editor
  • Section 13.1. Expression Editor Parameters
  • Section 13.2. Key Binding
  • Section 13.3. Editing Commands
  • Section 13.4. Creating New Editing Commands

• Chapter 14. Thread System
  • Section 14.1. Thread Creation
  • Section 14.2. Mutexes
  • Section 14.3. Conditions
  • Section 14.4. Thread Parameters
  • Section 14.5. Built-in Parameters
  • Section 14.6. Buffered I/O
  • Section 14.7. Example

• Chapter 15. Compatibility Features
  • Section 15.1. Hash Tables
  • Section 15.2. Expansion-Passing-Style Macros
  • Section 15.3. Extend-Syntax Macros
  • Section 15.4. Structures
  • Section 15.5. Compatibility File

• Bibliography

• Formal Syntax

• Summary of Forms

• Index

R. Kent Dybvig / Chez Scheme Version 7 User's Guide
Copyright © 2005 R. Kent Dybvig
Revised July 2007 for Chez Scheme Version 7.4
Cadence Research Systems / www.scheme.com
Cover illustration © 1998 Jean-Pierre Hébert
ISBN: 0-9667139-1-5
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