Reference Manual for Jscheme
July 2001
Jscheme is a dialect of
Scheme
which features a simple and comprehensive
interface to Java.
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it allows one to access all methods, constructors, and fields for
any Java classes by name.
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it provides access to Java literals, Java scalar operations,
Java threads, and Java exception handling.
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Jscheme supports all of the
R4RS specification of Scheme, with two
exceptions: continuations are only partially supported and strings
are immutable.
The following links provide a simple description of the
syntax and semantics of Jscheme and highlight those few points where
Jscheme differs from R4RS Scheme: