This book is a complete user's guide and reference manual for Chez Scheme Version 8. It describes each language extension in detail and provides a number of userful hints and example programs to make programming in Chez Scheme more productive and enjoyable. Topics covered include debugging, interacting with programs and functions written in other programming languages, data abstraction, syntactic abstraction, modules, generic ports, numeric operations, compiler controls, system operations, storage management, and more.
R. Kent Dybvig is the principal developer of Chez Scheme, and the author of The Scheme Programming Language, 4th Edition.
The cover illustration was created by Jean-Pierre Hébert.
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