Implementation of a basic turing-complete Scheme interpretation, complying to these specs.
To reach turing-completness, C++ is used as bootstrap medium. After I finished creating my 'own scheme', I continued to extend the language with it's own syntax, which can be found in library.scm
This project was created during the Honors course for OOP and Data Structures (COMP 2012H) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, instructed by Prof. Dekai Wu and Karteek Addanki.
The old (and unclean) project from the course with full commit history can be found on bitbucket.
Make sure you have all dependencies and build tools installed to compile and link a C++. If not you can install in Debian / Ubuntu it with:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Simply compile with make which results in an executable main file
make
./run
A Labyrinth generator is implemented with this scheme implementation. The code can be found in library.scm and runs once on startup. You can run it manually by executing this in the scheme shell:
(example-labyrinth)
This was extremely hard, because there is no random access in my scheme interpretation. I made a workaround by converting the linked-list syntax into a string and do string operations on it in order to come near to random access. You can see the performance comparison by executing the following in the scheme shell:
(example-performance)
- Every operation is seen as a function. eval() uses Cell::apply() which call the corresponding (overwritten) method of either
- Difference between ArithmeticCell and FunctionCell
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ArithmeticCellis used for undefined number of operands/ argument and uses a recursive approach **FunctionCellis used for functions (where if-else branching is considered as a function as well) with a defined number of arguments - Internally the Cell Abstract Base Class is called CellABC (to make it really clear). In order to comply to the cons.hpp interface a typedef alias to Cell is used.
- Function called by FunctionCells are separated in functions.hpp (easier to maintain). Cell.hpp only specified which functions are available.
FunctionCell and ArithmeticCell could be merged into a single unit neatly.
Special thanks to Dekai Wu for to give me theoretical background to build this interpreter and to Karteek Addanki to give tips on best practices and comments on my code.