[a bit OT] Calling Scheme from Common Lisp (ACL)
Jordan Katz
I'm currently using Allegro Common Lisp 6.2 for my work. I'd like
to be able to call a Scheme package called SXML (see
http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/xml.html) from my programs. Does anyone
know how I would go about doing this? The Allegro manual only
mentions foreign interfaces to Java and C, not Scheme.
Thanks a lot!
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Jordan Katz <ka...@underlevel.net> | Mind the gap
Kent M Pitman
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently using Allegro Common Lisp 6.2 for my work. I'd like
> to be able to call a Scheme package called SXML (see
> http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/xml.html) from my programs. Does anyone
> know how I would go about doing this? The Allegro manual only
> mentions foreign interfaces to Java and C, not Scheme.
>
> Thanks a lot!
Check out Jonathan Rees's pseudoscheme as one possibility.
There might be a Scheme84 or Scheme48 or some such thing that's another
option--I think he had a byte code interpreter that ran in CL.
Someone also recently mentioned a Scheme to Common Lisp translator on here.
Check google.
There are probably also foreign function call mechanisms you can use, too.
Tim Daly, Jr.
Jordan Katz <ka...@underlevel.net> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently using Allegro Common Lisp 6.2 for my work. I'd like
> to be able to call a Scheme package called SXML (see
> http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/xml.html) from my programs. Does anyone
> know how I would go about doing this? The Allegro manual only
> mentions foreign interfaces to Java and C, not Scheme.
You shouldn't really need an FFI for a Scheme program. Scheme and CL
are like the hatchback and wagon versions of the same car; most of the
components are identical. I would try to translate SXML into CL.
(IIRC, there are already a dozen translations into different Scheme
dialects kicking around).
I recently asked about Scheme to Lisp translators, and these two were
mentioned:
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/pseudo/
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/scmxlate/scm2cl.html
> Thanks a lot!
Have fun! :)
-Tim