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https://github.com/picrin-scheme/libpicrin

Super Tiny Scheme Interpreter for Freestanding Environment
https://github.com/picrin-scheme/libpicrin

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# libpicrin



libpicrin is a super tiny scheme interpreter intended to be embedded in other applications such as game engine and network server. It provides a subset language of R7RS with several useful extensions. By default, libpicrin only contains some C files and headers and this README file. To embed, you only need to copy the files into the project and add `include` dir to the include path.



Originally, libpicrin used to be the core component of [Picrin Scheme](https://github.com/picrin-scheme/picrin). They are currently maintained at separate repositories.



## Example



```c

#include 



#include "picrin.h"

#include "picrin/extra.h"



/* Simple REPL program */



int

main(int argc, char *argv[])

{

  pic_state *pic;

  pic_value expr;



  pic = pic_open(pic_default_allocf, NULL);



  while (1) {

    printf("> ");



    expr = pic_read(pic, pic_stdin(pic));



    if (pic_eof_p(pic, expr)) {

      break;

    }



    pic_printf(pic, "~s\n", pic_eval(pic, expr, "picrin.user"));

  }



  pic_close(pic);



  return 0;

}

```



## More Example



Function binding is also easy. `pic_defun` defines a scheme procedure converting from a C function. In the native function, callee arguments can be taken with `pic_get_args`. `pic_get_args` gets arguments according to the format string. If actual arguments does not match a number or incompatible types, it will raise an exception.



```c

#include "picrin.h"

#include "picrin/extra.h"



int fact(int i) {

  return i == 1 ? 1 : i * fact(i - 1);

}



pic_value factorial(pic_state *pic) {

  int i;



  pic_get_args(pic, "i", &i);



  return pic_int_value(pic, fact(i));

}



int

main(int argc, char *argv[])

{

  pic_state *pic = pic_open(pic_default_allocf, NULL);



  pic_defun(pic, "fact", factorial); /* define fact procedure */



  pic_load_cstr(pic, "(display (fact 10))");



  pic_close(pic);



  return 0;

}

```



## Language



All procedures and syntaces are exported from a single library named `(picrin base)`. The complete list is found at https://gist.github.com/wasabiz/344d802a2340d1f734b7 .



### call/cc



Full continuation has many problems in embbeding into applications. By default, libpicrin's call/cc operator does not support continuation that can handle re-entering (it only supports escape continuations). To remove this restriction, please use an add-on provided from [Picrin Scheme's repository](https://github.com/picrin-scheme/picrin/tree/master/contrib/03.callcc).



### Strings



libpicrin utilize rope data structure to implement string type. Thanks to the implementation, string-append is guaranteed to be done in a constant time (so do string-copy, when ascii-only mode is enabled). In return for that, strings in libpicrin are immutable by default. It does not provide mutation API (string-set!, string-copy! and string-fill! in R7RS). This restriction can be also removed with an add-on in [Picrin Scheme's repository](https://github.com/picrin-scheme/picrin/tree/master/contrib/03.mutable-string).



### Dictionaries



Dictionary is a hash table from symbol to object.



## Authors



See https://github.com/picrin-scheme/picrin for details.



## LICENSE



Copyright (c) 2013-2017 Yuichi Nishiwaki and other picrin contributors



Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of

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subject to the following conditions:



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