The report gives
a defining description of the programming language Scheme. Scheme is a
statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming
language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. It was
designed to have an exceptionally clear and simple semantics and few different
ways to form expressions. This PDF covers the following topics related to Scheme
: Introduction, Overview of Scheme, Requirement levels, Numbers, Lexical syntax
and datum syntax, Semantic concepts, Entry format, Libraries, Top-level
programs, Primitive syntax, Expansion process, Base library.
The Scheme Programming Language, which documents the standard subset
of the language. The book offers three chapters of introductory material with
numerous examples, eight chapters of reference material, and one chapter of
extended examples and additional exercises. All of the examples can be entered
directly from the keyboard into an interactive Scheme session.
This book is intended to provide an introduction to the Scheme
language but not an introduction to programming in general. The reader is
expected to have had some experience programming and to be familiar with terms
commonly associated with computers and programming languages. Topics covered
includes: Variable Binding, Control Operations, Operations on Objects, Input and
Output, Syntactic Extension, Extended Examples and Extended Examples.