This directory implements an R6RS mode for Larceny.  It should
be part of the current-require-path when R6RS-style programs
are being developed or executed.

FIXME: no longer quite true

The files in this directory are derived from Andre van Tonder's
implementation of R6RS programs, libraries, and macros.
The starting point was van Tonder's version 6.0, dated
29 October 2007, downloaded from

    http://www.het.brown.edu/people/andre/macros/

To avoid potential name clashes when using Larceny's require
feature, "r6rs-" has been prefixed to van Tonder's file names.

    r6rsmode.sch

        defines all entry points needed for developing and
        running R6RS-style programs in Larceny

    r6rs-compat-larceny.sch

        improved version of van Tonder's compat-larceny.scm

    r6rs-runtime.sch

        same as van Tonder's runtime.scm except for a change
        to ex:lookup-library that implements load-on-import

    r6rs-expander.sch

        same as van Tonder's expander.scm except for the
        definitions of repl and syntax-violation

    standard-libraries.sch

        extensively customized for Larceny, starting
        from van Tonder's standard-libraries.scm

What follows is the contents of van Tonder's readme.txt file.


;;;===============================================================================
;;;
;;; R6RS Macros and R6RS libraries:
;;;
;;;   Copyright (c) 2006 Andre van Tonder
;;;
;;;   Copyright statement at srfi.schemers.org/srfi-process.html
;;;
;;;===============================================================================
 
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TO RUN : execute examples.scm
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Should run out of the box on any R5RS-compliant system that 
provides (interaction-environment) and load.

Tested on: MzScheme     (compat file provided)
           Petite Chez  (compat file provided)
           Larceny      (compat file provided)
           Scheme48     (compat file provided)

R6RS COMPLIANCE NOTES:
======================

SYNTAX-CASE: 
------------   

 FULLY R6RS-COMPLIANT, WITH THE FOLLOWING OPTIONAL OR RECOMMENDED FEATURES:
  
   * Expansion algorithm (r6rs optional):
   
       We use a renaming algorithm instead of the mark-antimark
       algorithm described in the draft.  The difference will not 
       matter for r6rs-conforming macros.

   * Wrapped = Unwrapped (r6rs optional):
   
       A wrapped syntax object is the same as an unwrapped syntax 
       object, and can be directly manipulated using car, cdr, ... 
       without syntax-case deconstruction.  
       This should make porting of legacy low-level macros,
       e.g., explicit renaming or define-macro, easier.
       Macros depending on this feature wil not be 
       portable to all r6rs implementations.  
                 
   * Lexical scoping violation detection (r6rs recommended):
   
       We treat a violation of the following restriction in chapter 8
       as a syntax violation:
       
       A definition in the sequence of forms must not define any 
       identifier whose binding is used to determine the meaning of the
       undeferred portions of the definition or any definition that 
       precedes it in the sequence of forms.       

LIBRARIES:
----------

 FULLY R6RS-COMPLIANT WITH ONE EXCEPTION (SEE BELOW) WITH THE FOLLOWING 
 OPTIONAL FEATURES: 
   
   * Phase semantics (r6rs optional):
   
       - A syntax violation is raised at expand-time if a binding is
         referenced outside its declared levels.  We do this for 
         both variable references and macro references.  As we are 
         entitled to do by R5.97RS, we also check levels for some
         references that occur when free-identifier=? is called.
         Specifically: 
          
         A syntax error is raised if free-identifier=? succeeds 
         but either argument is outside its declared level.  This is sufficient 
         to ensure that literals such as ... in syntax-case are used at the 
         correct level.  See the examples file for more discussion, and for 
         an explanation of why the levels should not be checked if the 
         comparison fails.  
         
         Note: This choice raises a syntax violation when MzScheme and Chez
               would disagree, thus ensuring that a program blessed by this
               expander will be maximally portable.  
                
       - We start each expansion of a library form by removing visits of libraries 
         in any phase and instances of libraries in phases above 0. 
         We start each execution of a toplevel program by removing instances of
         libraries in phase 0.
                
       - While expanding a library form, we use an instance/visit at any phase as 
         an instance/visit at any other phase.     
                   
       - We may create instances/visits of a library at more phases than 
         strictly required to satisfy references, but only in the case - of 
         which the semantics is unspecified in r6rs - where a library is imported 
         for some phase but none of its bindings is used in that phase.  
         Specifically:
                
         During expansion of a library or program, each library imported 
         at phase n > 0 is instantiated once, and each library imported 
         at phase n >= 0 is visited once.   
                
         During execution of a program, each library imported 
         at phase n = 0 is instantiated once.
       
 KNOWN R6RS-NONCOMPLIANCE:       
       
   * Version name and reference are syntax-checked, but otherwise ignored. 
 
ADDITIONAL FEATURES:
==================== 

   * Separate and joint code organization and expansion:
   
       Libraries and programs may be in separate files or in the same file,
       and may be separately or jointly expanded. 
       See example scripts in examples.scm.

   * Repl:
   
       A REPL is provided that is integrated with the r6rs library system.  
       Libraries and programs can be defined at, imported into and run in the REPL toplevel. 
       The ex:repl procedure expands and evaluates a sequence of forms one by one. 
       See example REPL session examples.scm.

   * Dynamic loading of libraries:

       A non-standard library (rnrs load) is provided containing LOAD, which can be
       used for dynamic loading of any code, including dynamic loading 
       of R6RS libraries.
       See example in examples.scm.
       
   * Reflection:
    
       A library (rnrs eval reflection (6)) is provided.  
       It exports the procedure (environment-bindings <environment>).
       Displays for each binding whether it is a variable or macro, its
       source library, and its levels.
       Very useful for library development and debugging. 
       See examples of use in examples.scm.  
       
   * Explicit renaming:
     
       A compatible explicit renaming library (explicit-renaming) has 
       been included.  Although such a library is definable in syntax-case
       implementations that follow the algorithm described in the r6rs draft, 
       it would be inherently inefficient, suffering from an unavoidable
       increase in complexity class over comparable syntax-case macros.  
       Our algorithm does not have this problem, is in fact nothing but
       explicit renaming behind the scenes, and allows us to expose
       explicit renaming efficiently.
       See further documentation in standard-libraries.scm and 
       tutorial in examples.scm.  
 
CHANGELOG:
========== 

CHANGES SINCE VERSION OF AUG 19, 2007:
--------------------------------------

- Added non-standard library (rnrs load) containing LOAD, which can be
  used for dynamic loading of any code, including dynamic loading 
  of R6RS libraries.
- Added (r5rs) non-standard library.
- Added ASSERT to (rnrs base) and (rnrs).
- Added missing stuff to (rnrs unicode).
- Added (rnrs sorting), (rnrs records procedural), (rnrs records inspection),
  (rnrs files), (rnrs arithmetic fixnums), (rnrs arithmetic flonums), 
  (rnrs arithmetic bitwise).
- Added additional bindings in these libraries to (rnrs).
- Removed mutable string primitives from (rnrs (6)).
- Fixed minor bug that prevented (environment ---) from executing
  correctly when evaluated in phase > 0.
- Updated compat-larceny.scm to latest version found at
  http://larceny.ccs.neu.edu/larceny-trac/browser/trunk/larceny_src/lib/R6RS

CHANGES SINCE VERSION OF AUG 14, 2007:
--------------------------------------

- Added support for Scheme48.
- R5RS compliance: EVAL now takes interaction-environment second argument
- R5RS compliance: Use of - on three arguments has been removed
- R5RS compliance: replaced non-portable identifier ..0 by ___
- Letrec now correctly sets variables to black hole instead of unspecified

CHANGES SINCE VERSION OF JULY 31, 2007:
--------------------------------------

- A compatible explicit renaming library has been included.
  See documentation in standard-libraries.scm and tutorial
  in examples.scm.
- Now completely r5rs-portable.
- Greatly expanded the porting notes.
- The few bindings necessary at runtime have been separated
  into the small runtime include file runtime.scm.
  As a result, since object programs do not depend on the full
  expander, their runtime images can be much smaller than before.
- All runtime uses of eval, and a number of expand-time uses of eval,
  have been removed.
- Added ex:expand-r5rs-file for expanding r5rs-like toplevel files.
- We now check that libraries imported at runtime are the
  same build that the client library was expanded against.
- Uses better environment compression policy to make library
  object code smaller.
- Changed some uses of unspecified value to undefined value
  denoting the letrec(*) black hole.
- Replaced explicit deconstruction with pattern matching for
  better readability and maintenance.
- The code has been modularized with let and letrec-syntax to
  minimize the number of toplevel exports.  It has been reorganized
  so that internal definitions will work with both r5rs letrec
  and r6rs letrec* semantics.
- The expander now relies on r5rs syntax-rules and letrec-syntax
  and should run in a correct r5rs system.  It is also metacircular.
  In other words, if you don't have r5rs macros, you may use the
  provided fully expanded version to bootstrap modifications by
  feeding the expander to its expanded self.
- Removed uses of srfi-9.
- Library bindings are now properly removed before reinvoking
  a previously invoked library.
- Changed representation of libraries.
- Added missing export char? to (rnrs base) and (rnrs).
- Expansion of lambda has been optimized to eliminate a closure
  in the no-internal-definition case.
- Added 'only' annotations to standard libraries to make their
  environments, and therefore object code, much smaller.
- Removed uses of let-values.
- Removed uses of nonstandard parameterize.
- Reorganized code so it should run on r5rs systems with letrec
  semantics for internal definitions.
- Cleaned up initialization code.
- Fixed a bug where a new color was not created when invoking
  identifier-macro targets of set!
- Improved performance of eval by preparing environment fully
  during evaluation of (environment ---), not (eval ---) as before.
- Converted #'. #`, #, and #,@ to (quasi-)syntax and unsyntax(-splicing)
  so we are independent of this reader extension.

CHANGES SINCE VERSION OF JULY 12, 2007:
--------------------------------------

- Immutability checks:
  It is now a syntax violation if an explicitly exported variable appears on the 
  left-hand side of a set! expression, either in the exporting or importing libraries.
  It is also a syntax violation if a variable appears on the left-hand side of a set!
  expression in any code produced by an exported macro outside of the library in which 
  the variable is defined. 
  It is also a syntax violation if a reference to an assigned variable appears in any 
  code produced by an exported macro outside of the library in which the variable is 
  defined.
- Added library (rnrs eval reflection (6)) for reflection facilities:
  (environment-bindings <environment>) lists the bindings in an environment
  Very useful for development and dsbugging of libraries
  See the examples in examples.scm file
- replaced implementation of QUASIQUOTE with optimised Dybvig portable syntax-case version
- an unbound identifier at toplevel will now match unbound literal in library
- improved some error messages to state source libraries of bindings
- Larceny compat updated to v0.94
- corrected free occurrence of FIRST in ex:unify-imports that prevented an error message
- removed caching of imported macros
- added missing version (6) to library (rnrs mutable-strings)
- only, except, prefix, and rename now enforce the constraints stated in the r6rs draft

CHANGES SINCE VERSION OF JULY 10, 2007:
--------------------------------------

 - Fixed bug causing internal error when a literal appeared followed by
   ellipses, as in (syntax-rules (x) ((m x ...) #t))

CHANGES SINCE VERSION OF JUNE 22, 2007:
--------------------------------------

 - simplified expansion of bodies - "wraps"
 - changed "mark" to "color" everywhere to avoid confusion with Dybvig algorithm
 - changed unify-imports so it runs much faster
 - reorganized standard libraries so more common names near front of envs
 - simplified environment model significantly
 - fixed bug preventing nonpair, nonvector, nonsymbol values in syntax
   objects and patterns
 - removed UNSPECIFIED
 - we now detect and raise syntax error for pattern variables outside templates
 - corrected bug where pattern variable occurred outside a template in standard-libraries.scm
 - corrected bug preventing FOR clause from having no import levels
 - as required by r6rs, free-identifier=? now treats unbound identifiers specially
 - as required by r6rs, modified free-identifier=? behaviour w.r.t phases.
   Previously, free-identifier=? could return #f in cases where both arguments referred to
   the same binding but either argument was out of phase.  Now an out of phase error is
   raised in this case, so that a #f result can only happen when the arguments refer to
   different bindings, and a #t result when they refer to the same binding.
 - as allowed by R6RS, included refined phase checking of arguments to free-identifier=?
   An out of phase error is raised if the comparison succeeds but either argument is
   out of phase.  This is sufficient to ensure that literals such as ... in syntax-case
   are used in the correct phase.  See the examples file for more discussion.  
 - out of phase uses of internal DEFINE, DEFINE-SYNTAX, LET[REC]-SYNTAX, BEGIN will now give a phase error
 - for portability, out of context references to let[rec]-syntax bindings now give a syntax error
 - refined algorithm for better detection of definitions that affect previously expanded
   undeferred portions of body.  Should now catch all cases.
 - changed syntax of (primitives (id ...)) to (primitives id ...) 
 - implemented r6rs library version reference syntax
 - implemented (library ---) import clause
 - EVAL now raises a syntax error for definition or sequence containing definition
 - added (rnrs r5rs) including 
      (null-environment 5) 
      (scheme-report-environment 5)
      delay and force
 - Added stubs for (rnrs uncode), (rnrs io simple), (rnrs mutable-strings)
 - cleaned up standard library organization.

CHANGES SINCE VERSION OF MARCH 1, 2007:
---------------------------------------

 - added Larceny, MzScheme and Chez compatibilty files.
 - procedure ex:expand-file provided, that can be used as an r6rs front end
   to an existing r5rs compiler.  Libraries and toplevel programs may be in 
   separate files or in the same file, and may be separately or jointly 
   expanded or compiled.  Interface is 
   (ex:expand-file source-filename target-filename dependency ...)
   The dependencies must list the already expanded files
   containing libraries to be imported.  
 - added examples and scripts for separate and joint compilation in examples.scm
 - code no longer depends on the non-r5rs assumption of letrec* semantics for 
   internal definitions.
 - replaced uses of define-struct by uses of srfi-9.
 - export-levels of identifiers in standard libraries made consistent with 5.95,
   although I think 5.95 is still wrong on this.  
 - ... and _ disallowed as literals, although I think 5.95 is wrong on this.   
 - removed requirement that toplevel program should end with expression.
 - removed unused "level" argument in expanded library visiting and instantiation code. 
 - fixed bug that prevented certain redefinitions in toplevel repl (begin ...) sequences.  
 - changed contract-violation -> assertion-violation.
 - added (r6rs control) to standard libraries.
 - fixed bug that prevented shadowing of macro keywords by later variable definitions
   ar repl toplevel.

CHANGES SINCE VERSION OF JANUARY 15, 2007:
------------------------------------------

 - updated README to reflect compatibility with R(5.92)RS.

CHANGES SINCE VERSION OF DECEMBER 25, 2006:
-------------------------------------------

 - corrected bug in phase shift enforcement while visiting and
   invoking, which affected behaviour of syntax forms evaluated 
   in a library's top-level expand-time or runtime sequence.  
 - (r6rs base) now also exports ... and _ for use with syntax-rules.

CHANGES SINCE VERSION OF DECEMBER 17, 2006:
-------------------------------------------

 - dropped unshared instantiation option, keeping only shared semantics.
 - corrected export phase of syntax-rules and identifier-syntax
   in (r6rs base).  These are now exported for expand instead of 
   for run.
 - simplified documentation in readme.    

CHANGES SINCE VERSION OF DECEMBER 14, 2006:
-------------------------------------------

 - removed support for declarations
 - changed script -> program everywhere
 - changed add-prefix -> prefix everywhere
 - dropped the unparenthesized shorthand for library names
 - changed forall -> for-all everywhere
 - fenders have been removed from syntax-rules
 - added "identifier-syntax" to (r6rs base)

CHANGES SINCE VERSION OF NOVEMBER 27, 2006:
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 - corrected implementation and description of invocation semantics  
   and its interaction with negative import levels.    
   
CHANGES SINCE VERSION OF NOVEMBER 5, 2006:
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 - added UNSHARED semantics (see above) as a configurable option.  
 
CHANGES SINCE VERSION OF SEPTEMBER 13, 2006:
--------------------------------------------
 
 - added support for scripts.
 - quasisyntax now works with unsyntax(-splicing) instead of unquote(-splicing). 
 - many bug fixes and improvements in code.
 - reorganized standard libraries. 
 - properly avoids defect in R(5.91)RS assigning lexical scope violating 
   semantics to certain expressions.
 - implemented library reference syntax.
   
   
