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* Scheme syntax tree
@ 2015-12-04 20:08 Jan Synáček
  2015-12-04 21:00 ` David Kastrup
  2015-12-04 21:07 ` Thompson, David
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jan Synáček @ 2015-12-04 20:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Guile User

Hello,

I have a feeling that I saw a module that can parse a scheme program
into a syntax tree somewhere. Does such module exist? Or do I have to
roll my own?

Cheers,
-- 
Jan Synáček



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* Re: Scheme syntax tree
  2015-12-04 20:08 Scheme syntax tree Jan Synáček
@ 2015-12-04 21:00 ` David Kastrup
  2015-12-04 21:07 ` Thompson, David
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Kastrup @ 2015-12-04 21:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guile-user

Jan Synáček <jan.synacek@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have a feeling that I saw a module that can parse a scheme program
> into a syntax tree somewhere. Does such module exist? Or do I have to
> roll my own?

Uh, it's called the reader.  It's sort of the point of Lisp-like
languages that you write down the parse tree and save the computer the
work.

GUILE has tree-il and other representation which are _later_ stages in
the compilation than the "syntax tree" is: see
<URL:https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Compiler-Tower.html>.

-- 
David Kastrup




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* Re: Scheme syntax tree
  2015-12-04 20:08 Scheme syntax tree Jan Synáček
  2015-12-04 21:00 ` David Kastrup
@ 2015-12-04 21:07 ` Thompson, David
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Thompson, David @ 2015-12-04 21:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jan Synáček; +Cc: Guile User

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Jan Synáček <jan.synacek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a feeling that I saw a module that can parse a scheme program
> into a syntax tree somewhere. Does such module exist? Or do I have to
> roll my own?

Scheme is its own syntax tree, this is why they call Scheme (and other
Lisps) "homoiconic."  If you want to read a s-expression from an open
port, just use 'read'.

Happy hacking,

- Dave



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