[plt-scheme] A first metacircular evaluator

Start with the Art of the Interpreter instead. It's somewhere on-line.

Then move to PLAI. -- Matthias


On Nov 10, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Jens Axel Soegaard wrote:

> Grant Rettke skrev:
>> I've yet to implement a metacircular evaluator for Scheme.
>> Seemingly there are two places where this problem is posed:
>> SICP: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-26.html# 
>> %_sec_4.1
>> TSPL: http://www.scheme.com/tspl3/examples.html#./examples:h7
>> Are there more?
>
> Are you kidding? It has been a favorite pasttime for Lisp and
> Scheme hackers at least since the reference manual of Lisp 1.5
> to write meta circular interpreters. The first page of the
> first chapter of "Lisp in Small Pieces" contains references
> to the first 26 interpreters.
>
> > With which one should I begin?
>
> SICP is a fine place to start.
>
>
> For a short meta circular interpreter see:
>
>     http://scheme.dk/blog/archive/2006_12_01_archive.html
>
> -- 
> Jens Axel Søgaard
>
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