Gauche (Scheme implementation)
Gauche is an R7RS Scheme implementation. It is designed for scripting in a production environment. It is intended to allow programmers and system administrators to write scripts in support of daily operations. Quick startup, built-in system interface, native multilingual support are some of its key design goals.
| Developer(s) | Shiro Kawai |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 11 January 2001 |
| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Programming language |
| License | BSD License |
| Website | practical-scheme |
Gauche is free software under the BSD License. It is primarily developed by Shiro Kawai.
Features
- Quick startup - Gauche includes common features in its executable, while less common functions are in libraries which are loaded on demand.
- Module system - A simple module system, API compatible to STklos.
- Object system - CLOS-like object system with metaobject protocol. Almost API compatible to STklos. It is also similar to Guile's object system.
- Native multilingual support - Strings are represented by multibyte string internally. You can use UTF-8, EUC-JP, Shift-JIS or no multibyte encoding. Conversion between native coding system and external coding system is supported by port objects.
- Multibyte regexp - Regular expression matcher is aware of multibyte string; you can use multibyte characters both in patterns and matched strings.
- Built-in system interface - Gauche has built-in support for most POSIX.1 system calls.
- Network interface - Has API for socket-based network interface, including IPv6 if the OS supports it.
- Multithreading - Multithreading is supported on top of pthreads. Scheme-level API conforms to SRFI-18.
- DBM interface - Interfaces to dbm, ndbm and/or gdbm.
- XML parsing - Oleg Kiselyov's SXML tools are included.
References
- Notes
- R. Kelsey, W. Clinger, J. Rees (eds.), Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme, Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, 11(1), September, 1998 and ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 33(9), October, 1998.
- Carl Bruggeman, Oscar Waddell and R. Kent Dybvig, Representing control in the presence of one-shot continuations, in Proceedings of SIGPLAN '96, pp. 99-107, 1996.
- Eugene Myers, An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and Its Variations, Algorithmica Vol. 1 No. 2, pp. 251-266, 1986.
- Gregor Kiczales, Jim Des Rivieres, Daniel Bobrow, The Art of Metaobject Protocol, The MIT Press.
- Kim Barrett, Bob Cassels, Paul Haahr, David A. Moon, Keith Playford, P. Tucker Withington, A Monotonic Superclass Linearization for Dylan, in Proceedings of OOPSLA 96, October 1996.
External links
- Gauche home page
- Gauche reference manual
- Gauche development progress & plan
- Standards conformance and platform list
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