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Emacs support for (Petite) Chez Scheme

If you're running Linux, you already have Emacs. If you're running some other Unix variant, you can obtain it from http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs. If you're running Windows, you can obtain it from http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html and get additional help for installing Emacs on Windows from http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley/emacs.html.

There are three levels of customization you might want to run Chez Scheme or Petite Chez Scheme under Emacs: quick and dirty, iuscheme, or insane. If you are running Petite Chez Scheme instead of Chez Scheme, you'll need to make a small additional customization.

Quick and Dirty Setup

If you're not yet comfortable with Emacs and you don't want to make your emacs very customized (in order to stay somewhat standard), just add the following three lines to your emacs configuration file

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How to Debug Chez Scheme Programs

R. Kent Dybvig

August 2002

1. Basic debugging techniques
   1. Kinds of failure
   2. Understanding error messages
   3. Staring at the code
2. Simplifying the code and input

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Portable syntax-case

Abdulaziz Ghuloum, R. Kent Dybvig

The portable syntax-case macro system implements the restricted high-level syntax-rules and equally high-level but general-purpose syntax-case macros of the Revised Report on Scheme (R6RS). It also implements R6RS libraries and all built-in R6RS syntactic forms.

The system is documented in the R6RS and also described, with numerous examples, in Section 3.1 and Chapter 8 of The Scheme Programming Language, 4th edition.

Aspects of the macro system and its implementation are described in Syntactic abstraction in Scheme. Additional example

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Publications related to Chez Scheme

(The Markdown version of this document doesn't contain links, but it is also available in pdf format (with links; for the broken ones try the Wayback Machine), and a single bib file containing bibtex entries for all of the publications listed here is available as well.)

[1] Andrew W. Keep and R. Kent Dybvig. Automatic cross-library optimization. In Scheme 2013: Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming, 2013. Describes how Chez Scheme's expander and source optimizer collaborate to perform constant propagation and procedure inlining across library boundaries

[2] Andrew W. Keep and R. Kent Dybvig. A nanopass framework for commercial compiler development. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, 343-350, 2013. A description of the N