Arcadia: An implementation of the Arc programming language

Arc is a dialect of Lisp.

Build

make

With readline support,

make readline

With MinGW,

mingw32-make mingw

For Visual C++, use .sln file.

Run

Usage: arcadia [OPTIONS...] [FILES...]

OPTIONS:
    -h    print this screen.
    -v    print version.

Special form

assign do fn if mac quote

Built-in

* + - / < > apply bound car ccc cdr close coerce cons cos disp err expt eval flushout infile int is len log macex maptable mod newstring outfile pipe-from quit rand read readline scar scdr sin sqrt sread sref stderr stdin stdout string sym system t table tan trunc type write writeb

Library

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Features

• Easy-to-understand mark-and-sweep garbage collection
• Tail call optimization
• Implicit indexing
• Syntax sugar ([], ~, ., !, :)

See also

• Arc Tutorial, Arc Tutorial (HTML)
• Arc Documentation
• Try Arc: Arc REPL In Your Web Browser

License

Copyright 2014-2023 Kim, Taegyoon

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.