Kawa, the Java-based Scheme system

26 June 2000

• The Kawa Scheme system, by Per Bothner
• Features
• Getting Kawa
• Building and installing Kawa
  • Getting and running Java
  • Installing and using the binary distribution
  • Installing and using the source distribution
    • Building Kawa under Windows
• How to start up and run Kawa
  • Command-line arguments
  • Running a Command Interpreter in a new Window
  • Exiting Kawa
• Features of R5RS not implemented
• Compiling Scheme code to byte-codes
  • Compiling Scheme to an archive file
  • Compiling Scheme to a set of .class files
  • Compiling Scheme to a standalone application
  • Compiling Scheme to an applet
• Extensions
  • Multiple values
  • Special named constants
  • Keywords
  • Procedures
    • Procedure properties
    • Generic (dynamically overloaded) procedures
    • Extended Formal Arguments List
  • Quantities
  • Logical Number Operations
  • Strings
  • Uniform vectors
  • File System Interface
  • Ports
  • Formatted Output (Common-Lisp-style)
    • Implemented CL Format Control Directives
    • Formatting Integers
    • Formatting floating-point (real) numbers
    • Miscellaneous formatting operators
    • Not Implemented CL Format Control Directives
      • Extended, Replaced and Additional Control Directives
  • Signalling and recovering from exceptions
  • Locations
  • Eval and Environments
  • Debugging
  • Threads
  • Processes
  • Miscellaneous
• Types
  • Standard Types
  • Declaring Types of Variables
• Object, Classes and Modules
  • Records
  • Mapping Scheme names to Java names
  • Allocating objects
  • Calling Java methods from Scheme
  • Accessing fields of Java objects
  • Anonymous classes
  • Modules and how they are compiled to classes
    • Name visibility
    • Definitions
    • How a module becomes a class
    • Requiring (importing) a module
• The Scheme-Java interface
  • Scheme types in Java
  • Low-level Operations on Java Arrays
  • Low-level Method invocation
  • Low-level Operations on Object Fields
  • Loading a ModuleBody
  • Evaluating Scheme expressions from Java
• Mailing lists
• Projects using Kawa
• License
  • License for the Kawa software
  • Copyright for this manual
• Index

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