MIT Scheme Reference

Edition 1.62

for Scheme Release 7.4

16 April 1996

• Acknowledgements
• Overview
  • Notational Conventions
    • Errors
    • Examples
    • Entry Format
  • Scheme Concepts
    • Variable Bindings
    • Environment Concepts
    • Initial and Current Environments
    • Static Scoping
    • True and False
    • External Representations
    • Disjointness of Types
    • Storage Model
  • Lexical Conventions
    • Whitespace
    • Delimiters
    • Identifiers
    • Uppercase and Lowercase
    • Naming Conventions
    • Comments
    • Additional Notations
  • Expressions
    • Literal Expressions
    • Variable References
    • Special Form Syntax
    • Procedure Call Syntax
• Special Forms
  • Lambda Expressions
  • Lexical Binding
  • Dynamic Binding
  • Definitions
    • Top-Level Definitions
    • Internal Definitions
  • Assignments
  • Quoting
  • Conditionals
  • Sequencing
  • Iteration
  • Structure Definitions
• Equivalence Predicates
• Numbers
  • Numerical types
  • Exactness
  • Implementation restrictions
  • Syntax of numerical constants
  • Numerical operations
  • Numerical input and output
  • Fixnum and Flonum Operations
    • Fixnum Operations
    • Flonum Operations
  • Random Numbers
• Characters
  • External Representation of Characters
  • Comparison of Characters
  • Miscellaneous Character Operations
  • Internal Representation of Characters
  • ASCII Characters
  • Character Sets
• Strings
  • Construction of Strings
  • Selecting String Components
  • Comparison of Strings
  • Alphabetic Case in Strings
  • Cutting and Pasting Strings
  • Searching Strings
  • Matching Strings
  • Modification of Strings
  • Variable-Length Strings
  • Byte Vectors
• Lists
  • Pairs
  • Construction of Lists
  • Selecting List Components
  • Cutting and Pasting Lists
  • Filtering Lists
  • Searching Lists
  • Mapping of Lists
  • Reduction of Lists
  • Miscellaneous List Operations
• Vectors
  • Construction of Vectors
  • Selecting Vector Components
  • Cutting Vectors
  • Modifying Vectors
• Bit Strings
  • Construction of Bit Strings
  • Selecting Bit String Components
  • Cutting and Pasting Bit Strings
  • Bitwise Operations on Bit Strings
  • Modification of Bit Strings
  • Integer Conversions of Bit Strings
• Miscellaneous Datatypes
  • Booleans
  • Symbols
  • Cells
  • Records
  • Promises
  • Streams
  • Weak Pairs
• Associations
  • Association Lists
  • 1D Tables
  • The Association Table
  • Hash Tables
    • Construction of Hash Tables
    • Basic Hash Table Operations
    • Resizing of Hash Tables
    • Address Hashing
    • Low-Level Hash Table Operations
  • Object Hashing
  • Red-Black Trees
  • Weight-Balanced Trees
    • Construction of Weight-Balanced Trees
    • Basic Operations on Weight-Balanced Trees
    • Advanced Operations on Weight-Balanced Trees
    • Indexing Operations on Weight-Balanced Trees
• Procedures
  • Procedure Operations
  • Primitive Procedures
  • Continuations
  • Application Hooks
• Environments
  • Environment Operations
  • Environment Variables
  • REPL Environment
  • Interpreter Environments
• Input/Output
  • Ports
  • File Ports
  • String Ports
  • Input Procedures
  • Output Procedures
  • Format
  • Custom Output
  • Prompting
  • Port Primitives
    • Constructors and Accessors for Ports
    • Blocking Mode
    • Terminal Mode
    • Input Port Operations
    • Output Port Operations
• File-System Interface
  • Pathnames
    • Filenames and Pathnames
    • Components of Pathnames
    • Operations on Pathnames
    • Miscellaneous Pathname Procedures
  • Working Directory
  • File Manipulation
  • Directory Reader
• Error System
  • Condition Signalling
  • Error Messages
  • Condition Handling
  • Restarts
    • Establishing Restart Code
    • Invoking Standard Restart Code
    • Finding and Invoking General Restart Code
    • The Named Restart Abstraction
  • Condition Instances
    • Generating Operations on Conditions
    • Condition Abstraction
    • Simple Operations on Condition Instances
  • Condition Types
  • Condition-Type Taxonomy
• Graphics
  • Opening and Closing of Graphics Devices
  • Coordinates for Graphics
  • Drawing Graphics
  • Characteristics of Graphics Output
  • Buffering of Graphics Output
  • Clipping of Graphics Output
  • Custom Graphics Operations
  • Images
  • Win32 Graphics
    • Win32 Graphics Type
    • Custom Operations for Win32 Graphics
  • OS/2 Graphics
    • OS/2 Graphics Type
    • Color Operations for OS/2 Graphics
    • Window Operations for OS/2 Graphics
    • Event Operations for OS/2 Graphics
    • Miscellaneous Operations for OS/2 Graphics
  • X Graphics
    • X Graphics Type
    • Utilities for X Graphics
    • Custom Operations on X Graphics Devices
  • Starbase Graphics
• Win32 Package Reference
  • Overview
  • Foreign Function Interface
    • Windows Types
    • Windows Foreign Procedures
    • Win32 API names and procedures
  • Device Independent Bitmap Utilities
    • DIB procedures
    • Other parts of the DIB Utilities implementation
• Index