PonziScheme

A toy scheme interpreter written in C++.

What it's got

Types

• Integers
• Floats
• Symbols

Special Forms

• if
• lambda
• define
• quote (the backtick ` is also supported)

Builtin functions

• +,-,*
• =
• cons
• null?
• car
• cdr
• equal?

What's to come

• Compilation to a intermediate form
• tail call optimization
• a garbage collector that detects cyclic references

Requirements

• Boost (only need for polymorphic_cast)
• GNU make
• Bison 2.3
• Flex

Building

From the base directory, do:

  make
  cd src/repl
  make clean reader

There are a few tests (more to come) in test/:

  cd test
  make

Vagrant

The included Vagrantfile should provision everything correctly for building PonziScheme.