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Swift LispKit

Overview

Welcome to the LispKit Wiki. This wiki is work in progress. It provides information on the architecture of the system as well as the supported Lisp-based language.

Architecture

LispKit is a MacOS X framework providing functionality for parsing, compiling, and executing Lisp expressions. LispKit is written fully in the programming language Swift.

1. Parser
2. Representation of expressions
3. Compilation to bytecode
4. [Virtual Machine](Virtual Machine)
5. Bytecode instructions

LispKit Language

The language supported by LispKit is based on the R5RS standard of Scheme.