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| This chapter presents the Bigloo standard library. Bigloo is mostly R5RS compliant but it proposes many extensions to this standard. In a first section Scheme Library the Bigloo R5RS support is presented. This section also contains various function that are not standard (for instance, various functions used to manage a file system). Then, in the following sections Serialization, Bit Manipulation, and System Programming Bigloo specific extensions are presented. Bigloo input and output facilities constitute a large superset of the standard Scheme definition. For this reason they are presented in a separate section Input and Output.
### 6.1 Scheme Library
When the definition of a procedure or a special form is the same in Bigloo and Scheme, we just mention its name; otherwise, we explain it and qualify it as a ``bigloo procedure''.
### 6.1.1 Booleans
The standard boolean objects are `#t` and `#f`. Note: the empty list is true.
not obj | library procedure
`not` returns `#t` if `obj` is false, and returns `#f` otherwise.
    (not #t)                               => #f
    (not 3)                                => #f
    (not (list 3))                         => #f
    (not #f)                               => #t
    (not '())                              => #f
    (not (list))                           => #f
    (not 'nil)                             => #f
boolean? obj | library procedure
`Boolean?` returns `#t` if `obj` is either `#t` or `#f` and returns `#f` otherwise.
    (boolean? #f)                          => #t
    (boolean? 0)                           => #f
    (boolean? '())                         => #f
### 6.1.2 Equivalence predicates
eqv? obj1 obj2 | procedure
eq? obj1 obj2 | procedure
`eqv?` and `eq?` are equivalent in Bigloo.
    (eq? 'a 'a)                            =>  #t
    (eq? '(a) '(a))                        =>  unspecified
    (eq? (list 'a) (list 'a))              =>  #f
    (eq? "a" "a")                          =>  unspecified
    (eq? "" "")                            =>  unspecified
    (eq? '() '())                          =>  #t
    (eq? 2 2)                              =>  unspecified
    (eq? #\A #\A)                          =>  unspecified
    (eq? car car)                          =>  #t
    (let ((n (+ 2 3)))
      (eq? n n))                           =>  unspecified
    (let ((x '(a)))
      (eq? x x))                           =>  #t
    (let ((x '#()))
      (eq? x x))                           =>  #t
    (let ((p (lambda (x) x)))
      (eq? p p))                           =>  #t
Since Bigloo implements `eqv?` as `eq?`, the behavior is not always conforming to R5RS.
    (eqv? 'a 'a)                           =>  #t
    (eqv? 'a 'b)                           =>  #f
    (eqv? 2 2)                             =>  #t
    (eqv? '() '())                         =>  #t
    (eqv? 100000000 100000000)             =>  #t
    (eqv? (cons 1 2) (cons 1 2))           =>  #f
    (eqv? (lambda () 1)
          (lambda () 2))                   =>  #f
    (eqv? #f 'nil)                         =>  #f
    (let ((p (lambda (x) x)))
      (eqv? p p))                          =>  unspecified
The following examples illustrate cases in which the above rules do not fully specify the behavior of `eqv?`. All that can be said about such cases is that the value returned by `eqv?` must be a boolean.
    (eqv? "" "")                           =>  unspecified
    (eqv? '#() '#())                       =>  unspecified
    (eqv? (lambda (x) x)
          (lambda (x) x))                  =>  unspecified
    (eqv? (lambda (x) x)
          (lambda (y) y))                  =>  unspecified

    (define gen-counter
      (lambda ()
        (let ((n 0))
          (lambda () (set! n (+ n 1)) n))))
    (let ((g (gen-counter)))
      (eqv? g g))                          =>  #t
    (eqv? (gen-counter) (gen-counter))
                                           =>  #f
    (define gen-loser
      (lambda ()
        (let ((n 0))
          (lambda () (set! n (+ n 1)) 27))))
    (let ((g (gen-loser)))
      (eqv? g g))                          =>  #t
    (eqv? (gen-loser) (gen-loser))
                                           =>  unspecified

    (letrec ((f (lambda () (if (eqv? f g) 'both 'f)))
             (g (lambda () (if (eqv? f g) 'both 'g))))
      (eqv? f g))
                                           =>  unspecified

    (letrec ((f (lambda () (if (eqv? f g) 'f 'both)))
             (g (lambda () (if (eqv? f g) 'g 'both))))
      (eqv? f g))
                                           =>  #f
    (eqv? '(a) '(a))                       =>  unspecified
    (eqv? "a" "a")                         =>  unspecified
    (eqv? '(b) (cdr '(a b)))               =>  unspecified
    (let ((x '(a)))
      (eqv? x x))                          =>  #t
equal? obj1 obj2 | library procedure
    (equal? 'a 'a)                         =>  #t
    (equal? '(a) '(a))                     =>  #t
    (equal? '(a (b) c)
            '(a (b) c))                    =>  #t
    (equal? "abc" "abc")                   =>  #t
    (equal? 2 2)                           =>  #t
    (equal? (make-vector 5 'a)
            (make-vector 5 'a))            =>  #t
    (equal? (lambda (x) x)
            (lambda (y) y))                =>  unspecified
See r5rs, Equivalence predicates, for more details.
### 6.1.3 Pairs and lists
The form `()` is illegal.
pair? obj | procedure
cons a d | procedure
pair-or-null? obj | bigloo procedure
Returns `#t` if `obj` is either a pair or the empty list. Otherwise it returns `#f`.
car pair | procedure
cdr pair | procedure
set-car! pair obj | procedure
set-cdr! pair obj | procedure
caar pair | library procedure
cadr pair | library procedure
cadar pair | library procedure
caadr pair | library procedure
caaar pair | library procedure
caddr pair | library procedure
cadar pair | library procedure
cdddar pair | library procedure
cddddr pair | library procedure
null? obj | library procedure
list? obj | library procedure
list obj ... | library procedure
length list | library procedure
append list ... | library procedure
append! list ... | bigloo procedure
A destructive append.
reverse list | library procedure
reverse! list | bigloo procedure
A destructive reverse.
list-ref list k | library procedure
take list k | library procedure
drop list k | library procedure
list-tail list k | library procedure
`list-ref` returns the `k` element of the list. `take` returns a new list made of the first `k` element of the list. `Drop` and `list-tail` returns the sublist of `list` obtained by omitting the first `k` elements.
last-pair list | bigloo procedure
Returns the last pair in the nonempty, possibly improper, `list`.
memq obj list | library procedure
memv obj list | library procedure
member obj list | library procedure
assq obj alist | library procedure
assv obj alist | library procedure
assoc obj alist | library procedure
remq obj list | bigloo procedure
Returns a new list which is a copy of `list` with all items `eq?` to `obj` removed from it.
remq! obj list | bigloo procedure
Same as `remq` but in a destructive way.
delete obj list [eq equal?] | bigloo procedure
Returns a new list which is a copy of `list` with all items `equal?` to `obj` deleted from it.
delete! obj list [eq equal?] | bigloo procedure
Same as `delete` but in a destructive way.
cons* obj ... | bigloo procedure
Returns an object formed by consing all arguments together from right to left. If only one `obj` is supplied, that `obj` is returned.
every fun clist1 clist2 ... | bigloo procedure
Applies the function `fun` across the lists, returning the last non-false if the function returns non-false on every application. If non-false, the result of `every` is the last value returned by the last application of `fun`.
    (every < '(1 2 3) '(2 3 4))            => #t
    (every < '(1 2 3) '(2 3 0))            => #f
any fun clist1 clist2 ... | bigloo procedure
Applies the function `fun` across the lists, returning non-false if the function returns non-false for at least one application. If non-false, the result of `any` is the first non-false value returned by `fun`.
    (any < '(1 2 3) '(2 3 4))            => #t
    (any < '(1 2 3) '(2 3 0))            => #t
find pred clist | bigloo procedure
Return the first element of `clist` that satisfies predicate `pred`; false if no element does.
    (find even? '(3 1 4 1 5 9))          => 4
Note that `find` has an ambiguity in its lookup semantics -- if find returns `#f`, you cannot tell (in general) if it found a `#f` element that satisfied `pred`, or if it did not find any element at all. In many situations, this ambiguity cannot arise -- either the list being searched is known not to contain any `#f` elements, or the list is guaranteed to have an element satisfying pred. However, in cases where this ambiguity can arise, you should use find-tail instead of find -- find-tail has no such ambiguity:
    (cond ((find-tail pred lis) => (lambda (pair) ...)) ; Handle (CAR PAIR)
          (else ...)) ; Search failed.
find-tail pred clist | bigloo procedure
Return the first pair of `clist` whose car satisfies `pred`. If no pair does, return false. `find-tail` can be viewed as a general-predicate variant of the member function. Examples:
    (find-tail even? '(3 1 37 -8 -5 0 0)) => (-8 -5 0 0)
    (find-tail even? '(3 1 37 -5)) => #f

    ;; MEMBER X LIS:
    (find-tail (lambda (elt) (equal? x elt)) lis)
In the circular-list case, this procedure "rotates" the list.
reduce f ridentity list | bigloo procedure
If `list` if null returns `ridentity`, if `list` has one element, returns that element. Otherwise, returns `f` applied to the first element of the `list` and to `reduce` of the rest of the list. Examples:
    (reduce max 0 l) <=> (apply max l)
make-list n [fill] | bigloo procedure
Returns an `n`-element list, whose elements are all the value `fill`. If the `fill` argument is not given, the elements of the list may be arbitrary values.
    (make-list 4 'c)                     => (c c c c)
list-tabulate n init-proc | bigloo procedure
Returns an `n`-element list. Element i of the list, where 0 <= i < `n`, is produced by `(init-proc i)`. No guarantee is made about the dynamic order in which `init-proc` is applied to these indices.
    (list-tabulate 4 values)             => (0 1 2 3)
list-split list n [filler] | bigloo procedure
Split a `list` into a list of lists of length `n`. Last smaller list is filled with `filler`.
    (list-split '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8) 3 0) => ((1 2 3) (4 5 6) (7 8 0))
    (list-split (iota 10) 3)            => ((0 1 2) (3 4 5) (6 7 8) (9))
    (list-split (iota 10 3) '-1)        => ((0 1 2) (3 4 5) (6 7 8) (9 -1 -1))
iota count [start step] | bigloo procedure
Returns a list containing the elements
    (start start+step ... start+(count-1)*step)
The `start` and `step` parameters default to `0` and `1`, respectively. This procedure takes its name from the APL primitive.
    (iota 5) => (0 1 2 3 4)
    (iota 5 0 -0.1) => (0 -0.1 -0.2 -0.3 -0.4)
list-copy l | bigloo procedure
tree-copy l | bigloo procedure
The function `list-copy` copies the spine of the of the list. The function `tree-copy` recursively copies its arguments, descending only into the list cells.
delete-duplicates list [eq equal?] | bigloo procedure
delete-duplicates! list [eq equal?] | bigloo procedure
`delete-duplicates` removes duplicate elements from the `list` argument. If there are multiple equal elements in the argument list, the result list only contains the first or leftmost of these elements in the result. The order of these surviving elements is the same as in the original list -- `delete-duplicates` does not disorder the list (hence it is useful for "cleaning up" association lists). The `equal` parameter is used to compare the elements of the list; it defaults to `equal?`. If x comes before y in list, then the comparison is performed (= x y). The comparison procedure will be used to compare each pair of elements in list no more than once; the order in which it is applied to the various pairs is not specified. `delete-duplicates` is allowed to share common tails between argument and result lists -- for example, if the list argument contains only unique elements, it may simply return exactly this list.
See r5rs, Pairs and lists, for more details.
### 6.1.4 Symbols
Symbols are case sensitive and the reader is case sensitive too. So:
    (eq? 'foo 'FOO) => #f
    (eq? (string->symbol "foo") (string->symbol "FOO")) => #f
Symbols may contain special characters (such as #\Newline or #\Space). Such symbols that have to be read must be written: `|[^]+|`. The function `write` uses that notation when it encounters symbols containing special characters.
    (write 'foo) => foo
    (write 'Foo) =>Foo
    (write '|foo bar|) => |foo bar|
symbol? obj | procedure
symbol->string symbol | procedure
Returns the name of the symbol as a string. Modifying the string result of `symbol->string` could yield incoherent programs. It is better to copy the string before any physical update. For instance, don't write:
    (string-downcase! (symbol->string 'foo))
See r5rs, Symbols, for more details. but prefer:
    (string-downcase (symbol->string 'foo))
string->symbol string | procedure
string->symbol-ci string | bigloo procedure
symbol-append symbol ... | bigloo procedure
`String->symbol` returns a symbol whose name is `string`. `String->symbol` respects the case of `string`. `String->symbol-ci` returns a symbol whose name is `(string-upcase `string`)`. `Symbol-append` returns a symbol whose name is the concatenation of all the `symbol`'s names.
gensym [obj] | bigloo procedure
Returns a new fresh symbol. If `obj` is provided and is a string or a symbol, it is used as prefix for the new symbol.
genuuid | bigloo procedure
Returns a string containing a new fresh Universal Unique Identifier (see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Unique_Identifier).
symbol-plist symbol-or-keyword | bigloo procedure
Returns the property-list associated with `symbol-or-keyword`.
getprop symbol-or-keyword key | bigloo procedure
Returns the value that has the key `eq?` to `key` from the `symbol-or-keyword`'s property list. If there is no value associated with `key` then `#f` is returned.
putprop! symbol-or-keyword key val | bigloo procedure
Stores `val` using `key` on `symbol-or-keyword`'s property list.
remprop! symbol-or-keyword key | bigloo procedure
Removes the value associated with `key` in the `symbol-or-keyword`'s property list. The result is unspecified.
Here is an example of properties handling:
    (getprop 'a-sym 'a-key)       => #f
    (putprop! 'a-sym 'a-key 24)
    (getprop 'a-sym 'a-key)       => 24
    (putprop! 'a-sym 'a-key2 25)
    (getprop 'a-sym 'a-key)       => 24
    (getprop 'a-sym 'a-key2)      => 25
    (symbol-plist 'a-sym)         => (a-key2 25 a-key 24)
    (remprop! 'a-sym 'a-key)
    (symbol-plist 'a-sym)         => (a-key2 25)
    (putprop! 'a-sym 'a-key2 16)
    (symbol-plist 'a-sym)         => (a-key2 16)
### 6.1.5 Keywords
Keywords constitute an extension to Scheme required by Dsssl [Dsssl96]. Keywords syntax is either `<ident>:` or `:<ident>`. Keywords are autoquote and case sensitive. So
    (eq? toto: TOTO:) => #f
The colon character ```:`'' does not belong to they keyword. Hence
    (eq? toto: :toto) => #t
keyword? obj | bigloo procedure
keyword->string keyword | bigloo procedure
string->keyword string | bigloo procedure
keyword->symbol keyword | bigloo procedure
symbol->keyword symbol | bigloo procedure
### 6.1.6 Numbers
Bigloo has only three kinds of numbers: fixnum, long fixnum and flonum. Operations on complexes and rationals are not implemented but for compatibility purposes, the functions `complex?` and `rational?` exist. (In fact, `complex?` is the same as `number?` and `rational?` is the same as `real?` in Bigloo.) The accepted prefixes are `#b`, `#o`, `#d`, `#x`, `#e`, `#ex`, `#l`, `#lx`, `#z`, and `#zx`. For each generic arithmetic procedure, Bigloo provides two specialized procedures, one for fixnums and one for flonums. The names of these two specialized procedures is the name of the original one suffixed by `fx` (fixnum), `fl` (flonum), `elong` (exact C long), `llong` (exact C long long), and `bx` (big integer). A fixnum has the size of a C `long` minus 2 bits. A flonum has the size of a C `double`. An elong has the size of a C long. An llong has the size of a C long long. A big integer has an unbounded size.
number? obj | procedure
real? obj | procedure
integer? obj | procedure
complex? x | bigloo procedure
rational? x | bigloo procedure
fixnum? obj | bigloo procedure
flonum? obj | bigloo procedure
These two procedures are type checkers on types `integer` and `real`.
elong? obj | bigloo procedure
llong? obj | bigloo procedure
The `elong?` procedures is a type checker for "hardware" integers, that is integers that have the very same size has the host platform permits (e.g., 32 bits or 64 bits integers). The `llong?` procedure is a type checker for "hardware" long long integers. Exact integers literal are introduced with the special `#e` and `#ex` prefixes. Exact long integers literal are introduced with the special `#l` and `#lx` prefixes.
bignum? obj | bigloo procedure
This type checker tests if its argument is a big integer.
make-elong int | bigloo procedure
make-llong int | bigloo procedure
Create an exact fixnum integer from the fixnum value `int`.
minvalfx | bigloo procedure
maxvalfx | bigloo procedure
minvalelong | bigloo procedure
maxvalelong | bigloo procedure
minvallong | bigloo procedure
maxvallong | bigloo procedure
Returns the minimal value (respectively the maximal value) for fix integers.
exact? z | procedure
inexact? z | procedure
zero? z | library procedure
positive? z | library procedure
negative? z | library procedure
odd? n | library procedure
even? n | library procedure
zerofx? z | library procedure
positivefx? z | library procedure
negativefx? z | library procedure
oddfx? n | library procedure
evenfx? n | library procedure
zerofl? z | library procedure
positivefl? z | library procedure
negativefl? z | library procedure
oddfl? n | library procedure
evenfl? n | library procedure
zeroelong? z | library procedure
positiveelong? z | library procedure
negativeelong? z | library procedure
oddelong? n | library procedure
evenelong? n | library procedure
zerollong? z | library procedure
positivellong? z | library procedure
negativellong? z | library procedure
oddllong? n | library procedure
evenllong? n | library procedure
zerobx? z | library procedure
positivebx? z | library procedure
negativebx? z | library procedure
oddbx? n | library procedure
evenbx? n | library procedure
min x1 x2 ... | library procedure
max x1 x2 ... | library procedure
minfx x1 x2 ... | bigloo procedure
maxfx x1 x2 ... | bigloo procedure
minfl x1 x2 ... | bigloo procedure
maxfl x1 x2 ... | bigloo procedure
minbx x1 x2 ... | bigloo procedure
maxbx x1 x2 ... | bigloo procedure
= z1 z2 z3 ... | procedure
=fx i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
=fl r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
=elong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
=llong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
=bx r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
< z1 z2 z3 ... | procedure
<fx i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
<fl r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
<elong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
<llong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
<bx r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
> z1 z2 z3 ... | procedure
>fx i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
>fl r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
>elong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
>llong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
>bx r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
<= z1 z2 z3 ... | procedure
<=fx i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
<=fl r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
<=elong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
<=llong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
<=bx r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
>= z1 z2 z3 ... | procedure
>=fx i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
>=fl r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
>=elong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
>=llong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
>=bx r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
+ z ... | procedure
+fx i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
+fl r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
+elong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
+llong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
+bx r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
* z ... | procedure
*fx i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
*fl r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
*elong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
*llong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
*bx r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
- z | procedure
- z1 z2 ... | procedure
-fx i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
-fl r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
-elong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
-llong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
-bx r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
negfx i | bigloo procedure
negfl r | bigloo procedure
negelong r | bigloo procedure
negllong r | bigloo procedure
negbx r | bigloo procedure
These two functions implement the unary function `-`.
/ z1 z2 | procedure
/ z1 z2 ... | procedure
/fx i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
/fl r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
/elong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
/llong r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
/bx r1 r2 | bigloo procedure
abs z | library procedure
absfl z | bigloo procedure
quotient z1 z2 | procedure
quotientelong z1 z2 | procedure
quotientllong z1 z2 | procedure
remainder z1 z2 | procedure
remainderelong z1 z2 | procedure
remainderllong z1 z2 | procedure
remainderfl z1 z2 | procedure
modulo z1 z2 | procedure
gcd z ... | procedure
lcm z ... | procedure
floor z | procedure
floorfl z | procedure
ceiling z | procedure
ceilingfl z | procedure
truncate z | procedure
truncatefl z | procedure
round z | procedure
roundfl z | procedure
random z | bigloo procedure
randomfl | bigloo procedure
randombx z | bigloo procedure
seed-random! z | bigloo procedure
the `random` function returns a pseudo-random integer between 0 and `z`. If no seed value is provided, the `random` function is automatically seeded with a value of 1. The function `randomfl` returns a double in the range [0..1].
exp z | procedure
expfl z | procedure
log z | procedure
logfl z | procedure
log2 z | procedure
log2fl z | procedure
log10 z | procedure
log10fl z | procedure
sin z | procedure
sinfl z | procedure
cos z | procedure
cosfl z | procedure
tan z | procedure
tanfl z | procedure
asin z | procedure
asinfl z | procedure
acos z | procedure
acosfl z | procedure
atan z1 z2 | procedure
atanfl z1 z2 | procedure
sqrt z | procedure
sqrtfl z | procedure
expt z1 x2 | procedure
exptfl z1 x2 | procedure
exact->inexact z | procedure
inexact->exact z | procedure
number->string z | procedure
integer->string i [radix 10] | bigloo procedure
integer->string/padding i padding [radix 10] | bigloo procedure
elong->string i [radix 10] | bigloo procedure
llong->string i [radix 10] | bigloo procedure
bignum->string i [radix 10] | bigloo procedure
real->string z | bigloo procedure
unsigned->string i [radix 16] | bigloo procedure
The function `integer->string/padding` converts its arguments into a string with a left padding filled of characters `0`.
    (integer->string/padding 3 5)       => "00003"
The function `unsigned->string` only accepts the following radixes: `2`, `8`, and `16`. It converts its argument into an unsigned representation.
    (unsigned->string 123 16)           => "7b"
    (unsigned->string -123 16)          => "ffffff85"
nanfl? z | bigloo procedure
Returns `#t` if the floating `z` is `not-a-number`. Returns `#f` otherwise.
infinitefl? z | bigloo procedure
finitefl? z | bigloo procedure
The predicate `infinitefl?` returns `#t` if the floating `z` is positive or negative infinite. Returns `#f` otherwise. The predicate `finitefl?` is true if and only if `z` is finite.
signbitfl z | bigloo procedure
Returns `0` is `z` is positive or null. Returns a positive integer otherwise.
bignum->octet-string bignum | bigloo procedure
Returns a binary big-endian representation of the given bignum `bignum`.
    (string-hex-extern (bignum->octet-string #zx1234567)) => "01234567"
double->ieee-string z | bigloo procedure
float->ieee-string z | bigloo procedure
Returns a big-endian representation of the given number.
string->number string [radix 10] | procedure
string->elong string radix | bigloo procedure
string->llong string radix | bigloo procedure
string->bignum string radix | bigloo procedure
Bigloo implements a restricted version of `string->number`. If `string` denotes a floating point number then, the only radix `10` may be send to `string->number`. That is:
    (string->number "1243" 16)          => 4675
    (string->number "1243.0" 16)        -|
    # *** ERROR:bigloo:string->number
    # Only radix `10' is legal for floating point number -- 16
    (string->elong "234456353")         => #e234456353
    (string->number "#x1243")          => #f
string->integer string [radix 10] [startpos 0] | bigloo procedure
string->real string | bigloo procedure
In addition, `string->number` does not support radix encoded inside `string`. That is: For efficiency, `string->real` and `string->integer` do not test whether the string can be read as a number. Therefore the result might be wrong if the string cannot be read as a number.
octet-string->bignum string | bigloo procedure
Counterpart to `bignum->octet-string`. Takes the bignum representation in big-endian format `string` and returns the corresponding bignum.
    (octet-string->bignum (bignum->octet-string #z1234)) => #z1234
ieee-string->double string | bigloo procedure
ieee-string->float string | bigloo procedure
Convert the big-endian representations to their numeric values.
fixnum->flonum i | bigloo procedure
flonum->fixnum r | bigloo procedure
elong->fixnum i | bigloo procedure
fixnum->elong r | bigloo procedure
llong->fixnum i | bigloo procedure
fixnum->llong r | bigloo procedure
elong->flonum i | bigloo procedure
flonum->elong r | bigloo procedure
llong->flonum i | bigloo procedure
flonum->llong r | bigloo procedure
These last procedures implement the natural translation from and to fixnum, flonum, elong, and llong.
double->llong-bits z | bigloo procedure
float->int-bits z | bigloo-procedure
Returns the double-bits as a llong.
llong-bits->double llong | bigloo procedure
int-bits->float int | bigloo procedure
Converts the given llong bits to a double.
See r5rs, Numerical operations, for more details.
### 6.1.7 Characters
Bigloo knows named characters `#\alarm`, `#\backspace`, `#\delete`, `#\escape`, `#\tab`, `#\return`, and `#\null` in addition to the `#\space` and `#\newline` of R5RS. A new alternate syntax exists for characters: `#a<ascii-code>` where `<ascii-code>` is the three digit decimal ASCII number of the character to be read. Thus, for instance, the character `#\space` can be written `#a032`. Bigloo also supports the R7Rs syntax `#\x<hex-code>`.
char? obj | procedure
char=? char1 char2 | procedure
char<? char1 char2 | procedure
char>? char1 char2 | procedure
char<=? char1 char2 | procedure
char>=? char1 char2 | procedure
char-ci=? char1 char2 | library procedure
char-ci<? char1 char2 | library procedure
char-ci>? char1 char2 | library procedure
char-ci<=? char1 char2 | library procedure
char-ci>=? char1 char2 | library procedure
char-alphabetic? char | library procedure
char-numeric? char | library procedure
char-whitespace? char | library procedure
char-upper-case? char | library procedure
char-lower-case? char | library procedure
char->integer char | procedure
integer->char i | procedure
char-upcase char | library procedure
char-downcase char | library procedure
### 6.1.8 UCS-2 Characters
UCS-2 Characters are two byte encoded characters. They can be read with the syntax: `#u<unicode>` where `<unicode>` is the four digit hexadecimal Unicode value of the character to be read. Thus, for instance, the character `#\space` can be written `#u0020`.
ucs2? obj | bigloo procedure
ucs2=? ucs2a ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2<? ucs2a ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2>? ucs2a ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2<=? ucs2a ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2>=? ucs2a ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2-ci=? ucs2a ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2-ci<? ucs2a ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2-ci>? ucs2a ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2-ci<=? ucs2a ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2-ci>=? ucs2a ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2-alphabetic? ucs2 | bigloo procedure
ucs2-numeric? ucs2 | bigloo procedure
ucs2-whitespace? ucs2 | bigloo procedure
ucs2-upper-case? ucs2 | bigloo procedure
ucs2-lower-case? ucs2 | bigloo procedure
ucs2->integer ucs2 | bigloo procedure
integer->ucs2 i | bigloo procedure
ucs2->char ucs2 | bigloo procedure
char->ucs2 char | bigloo procedure
ucs2-upcase ucs2 | bigloo procedure
ucs2-downcase ucs2 | bigloo procedure
### 6.1.9 Strings
There are three different syntaxes for strings in Bigloo: traditional, foreign or Unicode. The traditional syntax for strings may conform to the Revised Report, see r5rs, Lexical structure. With the foreign syntax, C escape sequences are interpreted as specified by ISO-C. In addition, Bigloo's reader evaluate `\x??` sequence as an hexadecimal escape character. For Unicode syntax, see Unicode (UCS-2) Strings. Only the reader distinguishes between these three appearances of strings; i.e., there is only one type of string at evaluation-time. The regular expression describing the syntax for foreign string is: `#"([^"]|\")*"`. Escape characters are controlled by the parameter `bigloo-strict-r5rs-strings` (see Parameters). The library functions for string processing are:
string? obj | procedure
string-null? s | SRFI-13 procedure
Is `s` an empty string?
make-string k | procedure
make-string k char | procedure
string char ... | library procedure
string-length string | procedure
string-ref string k | procedure
string-set! string k char | procedure
string=? string1 string2 | library procedure
This function returns `#t` if the `string1` and `string2` are made of the same characters. It returns `#f` otherwise.
substring=? string1 string2 len | bigloo procedure
This function returns `#t` if `string1` and `string2` have a common prefix of size `len`.
    (substring=? "abcdef" "ab9989898" 2)
       => #t
    (substring=? "abcdef" "ab9989898" 3)
       => #f
substring-at? string1 string2 offset [len] | bigloo procedure
substring-ci-at? string1 string2 offset [len] | bigloo procedure
This function returns `#t` if `string2` is at position `offset` in the string `string1`. It returns `#f` otherwise.
    (substring-at? "abcdefghij" "def" 3)
       => #t
    (substring-at? "abcdefghij" "def" 2)
       => #f
    (substring-at? "abcdefghij" "defz" 3)
       => #f
    (substring-at? "abcdefghij" "defz" 3 3)
       => #t
string-ci=? string1 string2 | library procedure
substring-ci=? string1 string2 len | bigloo procedure
string<? string1 string2 | library procedure
string>? string1 string2 | library procedure
string<=? string1 string2 | library procedure
string>=? string1 string2 | library procedure
string-ci<? string1 string2 | library procedure
string-ci>? string1 string2 | library procedure
string-ci<=? string1 string2 | library procedure
string-ci>=? string1 string2 | library procedure
string-index string charset [start 0] [count -1] | bigloo procedure
string-char-index string char [start 0] | bigloo procedure
string-index-right string charset [start len-1] | bigloo procedure
Returns the first occurrence of a character of `char-or-set` in `string`. The argument `charset` is either a character or a string. If no character is found, `string-index` returns `#f` The argument `count`, if provided, is the number of characters to be scanned in the string.
string-skip string charset [start 0] | bigloo procedure
string-skip-right string charset [start len-1] | bigloo procedure
`string-skip` (resp. `string-skip-right`) searches through the `string` from the left (resp. right), returning the index of the first occurrence of a character which is not equal to c (if c is a character); is not in c (if c is a character set); does not satisfy the predicate c (if c is a procedure). If no such index exists, the functions return false. The start and end parameters specify the beginning and end indices of the search; the search includes the start index, but not the end index. Be careful of "fencepost" considerations: when searching right-to-left, the first index considered is end-1 whereas when searching left-to-right, the first index considered is start. That is, the start/end indices describe a same half-open interval [start,end).
string-contains string1 string2 [start 0] | bigloo procedure
string-contains-ci string1 string2 [start 0] | bigloo procedure
Does string `string1` contain string `string2`? Return the index in `string1` where `string2` occurs first as a substring, or false. `string-contains-ci` is the case-insensitive variant. Case-insensitive comparison is done by case-folding characters with the operation:
    (char-downcase (char-upcase c))
string-compare3 string1 string2 | bigloo procedure
string-compare3-ci string1 string2 | bigloo procedure
This function compares `string1` and `string2`. It returns a negative integer if `string1` < `string2`. It returns zero if the `string1` equal `string2`. It returns a positive integer if `string1` > `string2`.
string-natural-compare3 string1 string2 [start1 0] [start2 0] | bigloo procedure
string-natural-compare3-ci string1 string2 [start1 0] [start2 0] | bigloo procedure
This function compares `string1` and `string2` according to a natural string order. It returns a negative integer if `string1` < `string2`. It returns zero if the `string1` equal `string2`. It returns a positive integer if `string1` > `string2`.
    (string-natural-compare "foo" "foo")
       => 0
    (string-natural-compare "foo0" "foo1")
       => -1
    (string-natural-compare "foo1" "foo0")
       => 1
    (string-natural-compare "rfc822.txt" "rfc1.txt")
       => -1
    (string-natural-compare "rfc1.txt" "rfc2086.txt")
       => -1
    (string-natural-compare "rfc2086.txt" "rfc1.txt")
       => 1
    (string-natural-compare "rfc822.txt" "rfc2086.txt")
       => -1
    (string-natural-compare "a0" "a1")
       => -1
    (string-natural-compare "a1" "a1a")
       => -1
    (string-natural-compare "a1a" "a1b")
       => -1
    (string-natural-compare "a1b" "a2")
       => -1
    (string-natural-compare "a2" "a10")
       => -1
    (string-natural-compare "a10" "a20")
       => -1
    (string-natural-compare "a2" "a20")
       => -1
    (string-natural-compare "x2-g8" "x2-y7")
       => -1
    (string-natural-compare "1.001" "1.002")
       => -1
    (string-natural-compare "1.002" "1.010")
       => -1
    (string-natural-compare "1.010"  "1.02")
       => 1
    (string-natural-compare "1.02" "1.1")
       => -1
    (string-natural-compare "1.1" "1.02")
       => 1
    (string-natural-compare "1.02" "1.3")
       => -1
substring string start [end] | library procedure
`string` must be a string, and `start` and `end` must be exact integers satisfying:
      0 <= START <= END <= (string-length STRING)
The optional argument `end` defaults to `(string-length STRING)`. `substring` returns a newly allocated string formed from the characters of `STRING` beginning with index `START` (inclusive) and ending with index `END` (exclusive).
    (substring "abcdef" 0 5)
       => "abcde"
    (substring "abcdef" 1 5)
       => "bcde"
string-shrink! string end | library procedure
`string` must be a string, and `end` must be an exact integers satisfying:
      0 <= END <= (string-length STRING)
`string-shrink!` returns a new string formed from the characters of `STRING` beginning with index 0 (inclusive) and ending with index `END` (exclusive). As much as possible `string-shrink!` changes the argument `string`. That is, as much as possible, and for the back-ends that enable it, `string-shrink!` operates a side effect on its argument.
    (let ((s (string #\a #\b #\c #\d #\e)))
       (set! s (string-shrink! s 3))
       s)
       => "abc"
string-append string ... | library procedure
string->list string | library procedure
list->string list | library procedure
string-copy string | library procedure
string-fill! string char | bigloo procedure
Stores `char` in every element of the given `string` and returns an unspecified value.
string-downcase string | bigloo procedure
Returns a newly allocated version of string where each upper case letter is replaced by its lower case equivalent.
string-upcase string | bigloo procedure
Returns a newly allocated version of string where each lower case letter is replaced by its upper case equivalent.
string-capitalize string | bigloo procedure
Builds a newly allocated capitalized string.
string-downcase! string | bigloo procedure
Physically downcases the `string` argument.
string-upcase! string | bigloo procedure
Physically upcases the `string` argument.
string-capitalize! string | bigloo procedure
Physically capitalized the `string` argument.
string-for-read string | bigloo procedure
Returns a copy of `string` with each special character replaced by an escape sequence.
blit-string! string1 o1 string2 o2 len | bigloo procedure
Fill string `string2` starting at position `o2` with `len` characters taken out of string `string1` from position `o1`.
    (let ((s (make-string 20 #\-)))
    	(blit-string! "toto" 0 s 16 4)
    	s)
       => "----------------toto"
string-replace string char1 char2 | bigloo procedure
string-replace! string char1 char2 | bigloo procedure
Replace all the occurrence of `char1` by `char2` in `string`. The function `string-replace` returns a newly allocated string. The function `string-replace!` modifies its first argument.
string-split string | bigloo procedure
string-split string delimiters | bigloo procedure
Parses `string` and returns a list of tokens ended by a character of the `delimiters` string. If `delimiters` is omitted, it defaults to a string containing a space, a tabulation and a newline characters.
    (string-split "/usr/local/bin" "/") => ("usr" "local" "bin")
    (string-split "once   upon a time") => ("once" "upon" "a" "time")
string-cut string | bigloo procedure
string-cut string delimiters | bigloo procedure
The function `string-cut` behaves as `string-split` but it introduces empty strings for consecutive occurrences of delimiters.
    (string-cut "/usr//local/bin" "/") => ("usr" "" "local" "bin")
    (string-cut "once   upon a time") => ("once" "" "" "" "upon" "a" "time")
string-delete string char/charset/pred s [start end] | SRFI-13 procedure
Filter the string `string`, retaining only those characters that are not equal to `char`, not present in `charset`, or not satisfying `pred`. This function returns a fresh string no larger than `end` - `start`.
string-prefix-length s1 s2 [start1 end1 start2 end2] | SRFI-13 procedure
string-suffix-length s1 s2 [start1 end1 start2 end2] | SRFI-13 procedure
string-prefix-length-ci s1 s2 [start1 end1 start2 end2] | SRFI-13 procedure
string-suffix-length-ci s1 s2 [start1 end1 start2 end2] | SRFI-13 procedure
Return the length of the longest common prefix/suffix of the two strings. For prefixes, this is equivalent to the "mismatch index" for the strings (modulo the starti index offsets). The optional start/end indices restrict the comparison to the indicated substrings of s1 and s2.
string-prefix? s1 s2 [start1 end1 start2 end2] | SRFI-13 procedure
string-suffix? s1 s2 [start1 end1 start2 end2] | SRFI-13 procedure
string-prefix-ci? s1 s2 [start1 end1 start2 end2] | SRFI-13 procedure
string-suffix-ci? s1 s2 [start1 end1 start2 end2] | SRFI-13 procedure
Is s1 a prefix/suffix of s2? The optional start/end indices restrict the comparison to the indicated substrings of s1 and s2.
string-hex-intern string | bigloo procedure
string-hex-intern! string | bigloo procedure
Converts an hexadecimal `string` of `n` characters into an actual string of `n/2` characters.
    (string-hex-intern "4a4b4c") => "JKL"
string-hex-extern string [start [end]] | bigloo procedure
Converts a `string` into a hexadecimal representation. `string` must be a string, and `start` and `end` must be exact integers satisfying:
      0 <= START <= END <= (string-length STRING)
The optional argument `start` default to 0. The optional argument `end` defaults to `(string-length STRING)`.
    (string-hex-extern "JKL") => "4a4b4c"
### 6.1.10 Unicode (UCS-2) Strings
UCS-2 strings cannot be read by the standard reader but UTF-8 strings can. The special syntax for UTF-8 is described by the regular expression: `#u"([^]|\")*"`. The library functions for Unicode string processing are:
ucs2-string? obj | bigloo procedure
make-ucs2-string k | bigloo procedure
make-ucs2-string k char | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string k ... | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string-length s-ucs2 | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string-ref s-ucs2 k | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string-set! s-ucs2 k char | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string=? s-ucs2a s-ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string-ci=? s-ucs2a s-ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string<? s-ucs2a s-ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string>? s-ucs2a s-ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string<=? s-ucs2a s-ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string>=? s-ucs2a s-ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string-ci<? s-ucs2a s-ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string-ci>? s-ucs2a s-ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string-ci<=? s-ucs2a s-ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string-ci>=? s-ucs2a s-ucs2b | bigloo procedure
ucs2-substring s-ucs2 start end | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string-append s-ucs2 ... | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string->list s-ucs2 | bigloo procedure
list->ucs2-string chars | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string-copy s-ucs2 | bigloo procedure
ucs2-string-fill! s-ucs2 char | bigloo procedure
Stores `char` in every element of the given s-ucs2 and returns an unspecified value.
ucs2-string-downcase s-ucs2 | bigloo procedure
Builds a newly allocated ucs2-string with lower case letters.
ucs2-string-upcase s-ucs2 | bigloo procedure
Builds a new allocated ucs2-string with upper case letters.
ucs2-string-downcase! s-ucs2 | bigloo procedure
Physically downcases the `s-ucs2` argument.
ucs2-string-upcase! s-ucs2 | bigloo procedure
Physically upcases the `s-ucs2` argument.
ucs2-string->utf8-string s-ucs2 | bigloo procedure
utf8-string->ucs2-string `string` | bigloo procedure
Convert UCS-2 strings to (or from) UTF-8 encoded ascii strings.
utf8-string? string [strict `#f`] | bigloo procedure
Returns `#t` if and only if the argument `string` is a well formed UTF-8 string. Otherwise returns `#f`. If the optional argument `strict` is `#t`, half utf16-surrogates are rejected. The optional argument `strict` defaults to `#f`.
ascii-string? string | bigloo procedure
Returns `#t` if and only if the argument `string` is only composed of ascii characters. Otherwise returns `#f`.
utf8-string-encode string [strict `#f`] | bigloo procedure
Returns a copy of `string` where all the illegal UTF-8 prefix are replaced with the Unicode Replacement Character EF BF BD. The result is a well formed UTF-8 string.
utf8-string-length string | bigloo procedure
Returns the number of characters of an UTF-8 string. It raises an error if the string is not a well formed UTF-8 string (i.e., it does satisfies the `utf8-string?` predicate.
utf8-codepoint-length string | bigloo procedure
Returns the number of code points of an UTF-8 string. The code points length is the number of 16bits long values needed to encode the utf8 strings in utf16.
utf8-string-ref string i | bigloo procedure
Returns the character (represented as an UTF-8 string) at the position `i` in `string`.
utf8-substring string start [end] | library procedure
`string` must be a string, and `start` and `end` must be exact integers satisfying:
      0 <= START <= END <= (string-length STRING)
The optional argument `end` defaults to `(utf8-string-length STRING)`. `utf8-substring` returns a newly allocated string formed from the characters of `STRING` beginning with index `START` (inclusive) and ending with index `END` (exclusive). If the argument `string` is not a well formed UTF-8 string an error is raised. Otherwise, the result is also a well formed UTF-8 string.
iso-latin->utf8 string | bigloo procedure
iso-latin->utf8! string | bigloo procedure
utf8->iso-latin `string` | bigloo procedure
utf8->iso-latin! `string` | bigloo procedure
utf8->iso-latin-15 `string` | bigloo procedure
utf8->iso-latin-15! `string` | bigloo procedure
Encode and decode iso-latin strings into utf8. The functions `iso-latin->utf8-string!`, `utf8->iso-latin!` and `utf8->iso-latin-15!` may return, as result, the string they receive as argument.
cp1252->utf8 string | bigloo procedure
cp1252->utf8! string | bigloo procedure
utf8->cp1252 `string` | bigloo procedure
utf8->cp1252! `string` | bigloo procedure
Encode and decode cp1252 strings into utf8. The functions `cp1252->utf8-string!` and `utf8->cp1252!` may return, as result, the string they receive as argument.
8bits->utf8 string table | bigloo procedure
8bits->utf8! string table | bigloo procedure
utf8->8bits string inv-table | bigloo procedure
utf8->8bits! string inv-table | bigloo procedure
These are the general conversion routines used internally by `iso-latin->utf8` and `cp1252->utf8`. They convert any 8 bits `string` into its equivalent UTF-8 representation and vice versa. The argument `table` should be either `#f`, which means that the basic (i.e., iso-latin-1) 8bits -> UTF-8 conversion is used, or it must be a vector of at least 127 entries containing strings of characters. This table contains the encodings for the 8 bits characters whose code range from 128 to 255. The table is not required to be complete. That is, it is not required to give the whole character encoding set. Only the characters that need a non-iso-latin canonical representation must be given. For instance, the CP1252 table can be defined as:
    (define cp1252
       '#("\xe2\x82\xac" ;; 0x80
          ""             ;; 0x81
          "\xe2\x80\x9a" ;; 0x82
          "\xc6\x92"     ;; 0x83
          "\xe2\x80\x9e" ;; 0x84
          "\xe2\x80\xa6" ;; 0x85
          "\xe2\x80\xa0" ;; 0x86
          "\xe2\x80\xa1" ;; 0x87
          "\xcb\x86"     ;; 0x88
          "\xe2\x80\xb0" ;; 0x89
          "\xc5\xa0"     ;; 0x8a
          "\xe2\x80\xb9" ;; 0x8b
          "\xc5\x92"     ;; 0x8c
          ""             ;; 0x8d
          "\xc5\xbd"     ;; 0x8e
          ""             ;; 0x8f
          ""             ;; 0x90
          "\xe2\x80\x98" ;; 0x91
          "\xe2\x80\x99" ;; 0x92
          "\xe2\x80\x9c" ;; 0x93
          "\xe2\x80\x9d" ;; 0x94
          "\xe2\x80\xa2" ;; 0x95
          "\xe2\x80\x93" ;; 0x96
          "\xe2\x80\x94" ;; 0x97
          "\xcb\x9c"     ;; 0x98
          "\xe2\x84\xa2" ;; 0x99
          "\xc5\xa1"     ;; 0x9a
          "\xe2\x80\xba" ;; 0x9b
          "\xc5\x93"     ;; 0x9c
          ""             ;; 0x9d
          "\xc5\xbe"     ;; 0x9e
          "\xc5\xb8"))   ;; 0x9f
The argument `inv-table` is an inverse table that can be build from a table and using the function `inverse-utf8-table`.
inverse-utf8-table vector | procedure
Inverse an UTF-8 table into an object suitable for `utf8->8bits` and `utf8->8bits!`.
### 6.1.11 Vectors
Vectors are not autoquoted objects.
vector? obj | procedure
make-vector k | procedure
make-vector k obj | procedure
vector obj ... | library procedure
vector-length vector | procedure
vector-ref vector k | procedure
vector-set! vector k obj | procedure
vector->list vector | library procedure
list->vector list | library procedure
vector-fill! vector obj [start [end]] | library procedure
Stores `obj` in every element of `vector`. For instance:
    (let ((v (make-vector 5 #f)))
       (vector-fill! v #t)
       v)
copy-vector vector len | bigloo procedure
Allocate a new vector of size `len` and fills it with the first `len` element of `vector`. The new length `len` may be bigger than the old vector length.
vector-copy vector start end | bigloo procedure
`vector` must be a vector, and `start` and `end` must be exact integers satisfying:
      0 <= START <= END <= (vector-length VECTOR)
`vector-copy` returns a newly allocated vector formed from the elements of `VECTOR` beginning with index `START` (inclusive) and ending with index `END` (exclusive).
    (vector-copy '#(1 2 3 4) 0 4)
       => '#(1 2 3 4)
    (vector-copy '#(1 2 3 4) 1 3)
       => '#(2 3)
vector-copy! target tstart source [sstart [send]] | bigloo procedure
Copies a block of elements from `source` to `target`, both of which must be vectors, starting in target at `tstart` and starting in source at `sstart`, ending when `send - sstart` elements have been copied. It is an error for `target` to have a length less than `tstart + (send - sstart)`. `Sstart` defaults to `0` and `send` defaults to the length of `source`.
See r5rs, Vectors, for more details.
vector-append vector ... | bigloo procedure
Returns a newly allocated vector that contains all elements in order from the subsequent locations in vector .... Examples:
    (vector-append '#(x) '#(y)) => #(x y)
    (vector-append '#(a) '#(b c d)) => #(a b c d)
    (vector-append '#(a #(b)) '#(#(c))) => #(a #(b) #(c))
vector-for-each proc vector ... | bigloo procedure
Apply `proc` to all the elements of the `vectors`. The arity of `proc` must be the number of passed vectors. All vectors must have the same length. The procedure is applied from elements of index `0` to `(vector-length vector) - 1`.
vector-map proc vector ... | bigloo procedure
vector-map! proc vector ... | bigloo procedure
The function `vector-map` creates a new vector whose size the is the size of its argument `vector`. Each elements of the new vector is the result of apply `proc` to the corresponding elements of the initial vectors. The function `vector-map!` modifies the elements of the argument `vector`.
vector-shrink! vector end | bigloo procedure
Shrink a vector. The argument `vector` must be a vector, and `end` must be an exact integers satisfying:
      0 <= END <= (vector-length STRING)
Shrink a vector. The resulting vector's len is the minimum value of `(vector-length vec)` and `nlen`. `vector-shrink!` returns a new vector formed from the values of `VECTOR` beginning with index 0 (inclusive) and ending with index `END` (exclusive). As much as possible `vector-shrink!` changes the argument `vector`. That is, as much as possible, and for the back-ends that enable it, `vector-shrink!` operates a side effect on its argument.
### 6.1.12 Homogeneous Vectors (SRFI-4)
- Bigloo fully supports SRFI-4 specification of homogeneous vectors (see http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-4/srfi-4.html). Each homogeneous vector is represented by a Bigloo type. That is: `::s8vector` signed exact integer in the range -(2^7) to (2^7)-1 `::u8vector` unsigned exact integer in the range 0 to (2^8)-1 `::s16vector` signed exact integer in the range -(2^15) to (2^15)-1 `::u16vector` unsigned exact integer in the range 0 to (2^16)-1 `::s32vector` signed exact integer in the range -(2^31) to (2^31)-1 `::u32vector` unsigned exact integer in the range 0 to (2^32)-1 `::s64vector` signed exact integer in the range -(2^63) to (2^63)-1 `::u64vector` unsigned exact integer in the range 0 to (2^64)-1 `f32vector` inexact small real `f64vector` inexact largest real Each homogeneous vector datatype has an external representation which is supported by the read and write procedures and by the program parser. Each datatype also has a set of associated predefined procedures analogous to those available for Scheme's heterogeneous vectors. As noted by Marc Feeley's specification, for each value of TAG in { s8, u8, s16, u16, s32, u32, s64, u64, f32,f64 }, if the datatype TAGvector is supported, then the external representation of instances of the datatype TAGvector is #TAG( ...elements... ). For example, `#u8(0 100 #xff)` is an u8vector of length 3 containing 0, 100 and 255; `#f64(-1.5)` is an f64vector of length 1 containing -1.5. Note that the syntax for float vectors conflicts with Standard Scheme which parses `#f32()` as 3 objects: `#f`, `32` and `()`. For this reason, conformance to this SRFI implies this minor nonconformance to Standard Scheme. This external representation is also available in program source code. For example, `(set! x '#u8(1 2 3))` will set x to the object `#u8(1 2 3)`. Literal homogeneous vectors must be quoted just like heterogeneous vectors must be. Homogeneous vectors can appear in quasiquotations but must not contain unquote or unquote-splicing forms (i.e. ``(,x #u8(1 2))` is legal but ``#u8(1 ,x 2)` is not). This restriction is to accomomdate the many Scheme systems that use the read procedure to parse programs. the following predefined procedures are available:
  TAGvector? obj | SRFI-4 procedure
  make-TAGvector n [ TAGvalue ] | SRFI-4 procedure
  TAGvector TAGvalue ... | SRFI-4 procedure
  TAGvector-length TAGvect | SRFI-4 procedure
  TAGvector-ref TAGvect i | SRFI-4 procedure
  TAGvector-set! TAGvect i TAGvalue | SRFI-4 procedure
  TAGvector->list TAGvect | SRFI-4 procedure
  list->TAGvector TAGlist | SRFI-4 procedure
  where obj is any Scheme object, n is a nonnegative exact integer, i is a nonnegative exact integer less than the length of the vector, TAGvect is an instance of the TAGvector datatype, TAGvalue is a number of the type acceptable for elements of the TAGvector datatype, and TAGlist is a proper list of numbers of the type acceptable for elements of the TAGvector datatype. It is an error if TAGvalue is not the same type as the elements of the TAGvector datatype (for example if an exact integer is passed to f64vector). If the fill value is not specified, the content of the vector is unspecified but individual elements of the vector are guaranteed to be in the range of values permitted for that type of vector.
### 6.1.13 Control features
procedure? obj | procedure
apply proc arg1 ... args | procedure
map proc list1 list2 ... | library procedure
map! proc list1 list2 ... | bigloo procedure
for-each proc list1 list2 ... | library procedure
filter pred list ... | library procedure
filter! pred list ... | library procedure
Strip out all elements of `list` for which the predicate `pred` is not true. The second version `filter!` is destructive:
    (filter number? '(1 2 #\a "foo" foo 3)) => (1 2 3)
    (let ((l (list 1 2 #\a "foo" 'foo 3)))
       (set! l (filter! number? l))
       l)                                   => (1 2 3)
append-map proc list1 list2 ... | library procedure
append-map! proc list1 list2 ... | library procedure
The expression
      (append-map f clist1 clist2 ...)
is equivalent to:
      (apply append (map f clist1 clist2 ...))
The expression
      (append-map! f clist1 clist2 ...)
is equivalent to:
      (apply append! (map f clist1 clist2 ...))
filter-map pred list ... | bigloo procedure
As `map` but only none `#f` values are accumulated in the resulting list. The Bigloo implementation complies with the SRFI-1 description.
    (filter-map (lambda (x) (if (number? x) '- #f)) '(1 2 #\a "foo" foo 3)) => (- - -)
sort proc obj | bigloo procedure
sort obj proc | bigloo procedure
Sorts `obj` according to `proc` test. The argument `obj` can either be a vector or a list. In either case, a copy of the argument is returned. For instance:
    (let ((l '(("foo" 5) ("bar" 6) ("hux" 1) ("gee" 4))))
       (sort (lambda (x y) (string<? (car x) (car y))) l))
       => ((bar 6) (foo 5) (gee 4) (hux 1))
The second form (which uses `obj` before `proc` ensures backward compatibility with old Lisp systems, and older Bigloo versions. It is deprecated.
force promise | library procedure
call/cc proc | bigloo procedure
This function is the same as the `call-with-current-continuation` function of the R5RS, see r5rs, call-with-current-continuation, but it is necessary to compile the module with the `-call/cc` option to use it, see Section See The Bigloo command line. Note: Since `call/cc` is difficult to compile efficiently, one might consider using `bind-exit` instead. For this reason, we decided to enable `call/cc` only with a compiler option.
bind-exit escape body | bigloo syntax
This form provides an escape operator facility. `bind-exit` evaluates the `body`, which may refer to the variable `escape` which will denote an ``escape function'' of one argument: when called, this escape function will return from the `bind-exit` form with the given argument as the value of the `bind-exit` form. The `escape` can only be used while in the dynamic extent of the form. Bindings introduced by `bind-exit` are immutable.
    (bind-exit (exit)
     (for-each (lambda (x)
                 (if (negative? x)
                     (exit x)))
               '(54 0 37 -3 245 19))
     #t)                                  => -3

    (define list-length
      (lambda (obj)
        (bind-exit (return)
         (letrec ((r (lambda (obj)
                        (cond ((null? obj) 0)
                              ((pair? obj)
                               (+ (r (cdr obj)) 1))
                              (else (return #f))))))
              (r obj)))))

    (list-length '(1 2 3 4))               => 4
    (list-length '(a b . c))               => #f
unwind-protect expr protect | bigloo syntax
This form provides protections. Expression `expr` is evaluated. If this evaluation requires the invocation of an escape procedure (a procedure bounded by the `bind-exit` special form), `protect` is evaluated before the control jump to the exit procedure. If `expr` does not raise any exit procedure, `unwind-protect` has the same behaviour as the `begin` special form except that the value of the form is always the value of `expr`.
    (define (my-open f)
       (if (file-exists? f)
           (let ((port (open-input-file f)))
              (if (input-port? port)
                  (unwind-protect
                     (bar port)
                     (close-input-port port))))))
dynamic-wind before thunk after | procedure
Calls `thunk` without arguments, returning the result(s) of this call. `Before` and `after` are called, also without arguments, as required by the following rules (note that in the absence of calls to continuations captured using `call/cc` the three arguments are called once each, in order). `Before` is called whenever execution enters the dynamic extent of the call to `thunk` and `after` is called whenever it exits that dynamic extent. The dynamic extent of a procedure call is the period between when the call is initiated and when it returns. In Scheme, because of `call/cc`, the dynamic extent of a call may not be a single, connected time period. It is defined as follows: The dynamic extent is entered when execution of the body of the called procedure begins. The dynamic extent is also entered when execution is not within the dynamic extent and a continuation is invoked that was captured (using `call/cc`) during the dynamic extent. It is exited when the called procedure returns. It is also exited when execution is within the dynamic extent and a continuation is invoked that was captured while not within the dynamic extent. If a second call to `dynamic-wind` occurs within the dynamic extent of the call to `thunk` and then a continuation is invoked in such a way that the `after`s from these two invocations of `dynamic-wind` are both to be called, then the `after` associated with the second (inner) call to `dynamic-wind` is called first. If a second call to `dynamic-wind` occurs within the dynamic extent of the call to `thunk` and then a continuation is invoked in such a way that the `before`s from these two invocations of `dynamic-wind` are both to be called, then the `before` associated with the first (outer) call to `dynamic-wind` is called first. If invoking a continuation requires calling the `before` from one call to `dynamic-wind` and the `after` from another, then the `after` is called first. The effect of using a captured continuation to enter or exit the dynamic extent of a call to `before` or `after` is undefined.
    (let ((path '())
          (c #f))
      (let ((add (lambda (s)
                   (set! path (cons s path)))))
        (dynamic-wind
          (lambda () (add 'connect))
          (lambda ()
            (add (call/cc
                   (lambda (c0)
                     (set! c c0)
                     'talk1))))
          (lambda () (add 'disconnect)))
        (if (< (length path) 4)
            (c 'talk2)
            (reverse path))))

       => (connect talk1 disconnect connect talk2 disconnect)
unspecified | bigloo procedure
Returns the unspecified (noted as `#unspecified`) object with no specific property.
try exp handler | bigloo syntax
This form is documented in Section Errors Assertions and Traces.
values obj ... | procedure
Delivers all of its arguments to its continuation. Except for continuations created by the `call-with-values` procedure, all continuations take exactly one value. `Values` might be defined as follows:
    (define (values . things)
      (call/cc
        (lambda (cont) (apply cont things))))
call-with-values producer consumer | procedure
Calls its `producer` argument with no values and a continuation that, when passed some values, calls the `consumer` procedure with those values as arguments. The continuation for the call to `consumer` is the continuation of the call to `call-with-values`.
    (call-with-values (lambda () (values 4 5))
                      (lambda (a b) b))
        => 5
    (call-with-values * -)
        => -1
multiple-value-bind (var ...) producer exp ... | bigloo syntax
receive (var ...) producer exp ... | bigloo syntax
Evaluates `exp` ... in a environment where `var` ... are bound from the evaluation of `producer`. The result of `producer` must be a call to `values` where the number of argument is the number of bound variables.
    (define (bar a)
       (values (modulo a 5) (quotient a 5)))

    (define (foo a)
       (multiple-value-bind (x y)
          (bar a)
          (print x " " y)))

    (foo 354)
       -| 4 70
### 6.2 Input and output
This section describes Scheme operation for reading and writing data. The section Files describes functions for handling files.
### 6.2.1 Library functions
call-with-input-file string proc | library procedure
call-with-input-string string proc | bigloo procedure
call-with-output-file string proc | library procedure
call-with-append-file string proc | library procedure
call-with-output-string proc | library procedure
These two procedures call `proc` with one argument, a port obtained by opening `string`. See r5rs, Ports, for more details.
    (call-with-input-file "/etc/passwd"
       (lambda (port)
          (let loop ((line (read-line port)))
             (if (not (eof-object? line))
                 (begin
                    (print line)
                    (loop (read-line port)))))))
input-port? obj | procedure
input-string-port? obj | procedure
output-port? obj | procedure
output-string-port? obj | procedure
port? obj | procedure
input-port-name obj | bigloo procedure
input-port-name-set! obj name | bigloo procedure
output-port-name obj | bigloo procedure
output-port-name-set! obj name | bigloo procedure
Returns/sets the file name for which `obj` has been opened.
input-port-length obj | bigloo (>=3.8d) procedure
Returns the source number of bytes, i.e., the number characters contains in the source. Returns `-1` if that number is unknown (typically for a pipe).
input-port-timeout port | bigloo (>=3.6b) procedure
input-port-timeout-set! port time | bigloo (>=2.8b) procedure
output-port-timeout port | bigloo (>=3.6b) procedure
output-port-timeout-set! port time | bigloo (>=2.8b) procedure
Setting a port timeout limits the time an read or write operation may last. If the `time` limit (expressed in microseconds) exceeded, an exception of time `&io-timeout-error` is raised. Setting a timeout equal to 0, restore the socket in blocking mode. Setting a timeout with a value lesser than 0 is ignored. Note: ports created from sockets share their internal file descriptor. Hence it is erroneous to set a timeout for only one of the two ports. Both must be set.
output-port-flush-hook port | bigloo procedure
output-port-flush-hook-set! port hook | bigloo procedure
Returns (resp. sets) the flush hook of the output `port`. The flush hook is a procedure of two arguments, the output port and the number of characters that are to be actually written out during the flush. It is unspecified when the hook is invoked, however, one may expect the C back-end to invoke the hook only when output buffers are full. The other back-ends (JVM and DOTNET) are likely to invoke the hook as soon as a character is to be written. A flush hook can return two types of values: A string, which is then directly displayed to the system stream associated with the output port. An integer, which denotes the number of characters of the output port flush buffer (see `output-port-flush-buffer`) that have to be displayed on the system stream.
output-port-flush-buffer port | bigloo procedure
output-port-flush-buffer-set! port buffer | bigloo procedure
These functions gets and sets a buffer that can be used by program by the flush hooks. The runtime system makes no provision for automatically allocated these buffers that hence must be manually allocated by programs. The motivation for flush buffer is to allow programs to write flush hooks that don't have to allocate a new string each time invoked.
output-port-close-hook port | bigloo procedure
output-port-close-hook-set! port proc | bigloo procedure
Returns (resp. sets) the close hook of the output `port`. The close hook is a procedure of one argument, the closed port. The hook is invoked after the `port` is closed.
input-port-close-hook port | bigloo procedure
input-port-close-hook-set! port proc | bigloo procedure
Returns (resp. sets) the close hook of the input `port`. The close hook is a procedure of one argument, the closed port. Example:
    (let ((p (open-input-string "/etc/passwd")))
      (input-port-close-hook-set! p (lambda () (display 'done)))
      ...
      (close-input-port p))
input-port-reopen! obj | bigloo procedure
Re-open the input port `obj`. That is, re-start reading from the first character of the input port.
current-input-port | procedure
current-output-port | procedure
current-error-port | bigloo procedure
with-input-from-file string thunk | optional procedure
with-input-from-string string thunk | optional procedure
with-input-from-procedure procedure thunk | optional procedure
with-output-to-file string thunk | optional procedure
with-append-to-file string thunk | optional procedure
with-error-to-file string thunk | bigloo procedure
with-output-to-string thunk | bigloo procedure
with-output-to-procedure procedure thunk | bigloo procedure
with-error-to-string thunk | bigloo procedure
with-error-to-procedure procedure thunk | bigloo procedure
A port is opened from file `string`. This port is made the current input port (resp. the current output port or the current error port) and `thunk` is called. See r5rs, Ports, for more details.
    (with-input-from-file "/etc/passwd"
       (lambda ()
          (let loop ((line (read-line (current-input-port))))
             (if (not (eof-object? line))
                 (begin
                    (print line)
                    (loop (read-line (current-input-port))))))))
with-input-from-port port thunk | bigloo procedure
with-output-to-port port thunk | bigloo procedure
with-error-to-port port thunk | bigloo procedure
`with-input-from-port`, `with-output-to-port` and `with-error-to-port` all suppose `port` to be a legal port. They call `thunk` making `port` the current input (resp. output or error) port. None of these functions close `port` on the continuation of `thunk`.
    (with-output-to-port (current-error-port)
       (lambda () (display "hello")))
open-input-file file-name [buffer #f] [timeout 5000000] | procedure
- If `file-name` is a regular file name, `open-input-file` behaves as the function defined in the Scheme report. If `file-name` starts with special prefixes it behaves differently. Here are the recognized prefixes: `|` (a string made of the characters `#\|` and `#\space`) Instead of opening a regular file, Bigloo opens an input pipe. The same syntax is used for output file.
      (define pin (open-input-file "| cat /etc/passwd"))
      (define pout (open-output-file "| wc -l"))

      (display (read pin) pout)
      (close-input-port pin)
      (newline pout)
      (close-output-port pout)
- `pipe:` Same as `|` . `file:` Opens a regular file. `fd:` Opens a file descriptor.
      (with-input-from-file "fd:0"
         (lambda ()
            (read)))
- `gzip:` Opens a port on a gzipped filed. This is equivalent to `open-input-gzip-file`. Example:
      (with-input-from-file "gzip:bigloo.tar.gz"
         (lambda ()
            (send-chars (current-input-port) (current-output-port))))
- `string:` Opens a port on a string. This is equivalent to `open-input-string`. Example:
      (with-input-from-file "string:foo bar Gee"
         (lambda ()
            (print (read))
            (print (read))
            (print (read))))
         -| foo
         -| bar
         -| Gee
`http://server/path` Opens an http connection on `server` and open an input file on file `path`. `http://server:port-number/path` `http://user:password@server:port-number/path` Opens an http connection on `server`, on port number `port` with an authentication and open an input file on file `path`. `ftp://server/path` `ftp://user:password@server/path` Opens an ftp connection on `server` and open an input file on file `path`. Log in as anonymous. `ressource:` Opens a JVM ressource file. Opening a `ressource:` file in non JVM backend always return `#f`. On the JVM backend it returns a input port if the ressource exists. Otherwise, it returns `#f`. The optional argument `buffer` can either be: A positive fixnum, this gives the size of the buffer. The boolean `#t`, a buffer is allocated. The boolean `#f`, the socket is unbufferized. A string, it is used as buffer. The optional argument `timeout`, an integer represents a microseconds timeout for the open operation.
open-input-gzip-file file-name [buffer #t] | bigloo procedure
open-input-gzip-port input-port [buffer #t] | bigloo procedure
Open respectively a gzipped file for input and a port on a gzipped stream. Note that closing a gzip port opened from a port `pi` does not close the `pi` port.
    (let ((p (open-input-gzip-file "bigloo.tar.gz")))
       (unwind-protect
          (read-line p1)
          (close-input-port p)))
This can be decomposed as:
    (let* ((p1 (open-input-file "bigloo.tar.gz"))
           (p2 (open-input-gzip-port p1)))
       (unwind-protect
          (read-line p2)
          (close-input-port p2)
          (close-input-port p1)))
open-input-zlib-file file-name [buffer #t] | bigloo procedure
open-input-zlib-port input-port [buffer #t] | bigloo procedure
Open respectively a zlib file for input and a port on a zlib stream. Note that closing a zlib port opened from a port `pi` does not close the `pi` port.
open-input-descriptor fd [buffer #t] | bigloo procedure
Open a file descriptor (as C `fdopen`).
open-input-string string [start 0] [end] | bigloo procedure
open-input-string! string [start 0] [end] | bigloo procedure
`string` must be a string, and `start` and `end` must be exact integers satisfying:
      0 <= START <= END <= (string-length STRING)
The optional argument `end` defaults to `(string-length STRING)`. Returns an `input-port` able to deliver characters from `string`. The function `open-input-string!` acts as `open-input-string` but it might modify the string it receives as parameter.
open-input-c-string string | bigloo procedure
Returns an `input-port` able to deliver characters from C `string`. The buffer used by the input port is the exact same string as the argument. That is, no buffer is allocated.
open-input-ftp-file file-name [buffer #t] | bigloo procedure
Returns an `input-port` able to deliver characters from a remote file located on a FTP server. Example:
    (let ((p (open-input-ftp-file "ftp-sop.inria.fr/ls-lR.gz'')))
      (unwind-protect
         (read-string p)
         (close-input-port p)))
The file name may contain user authentication such as:
    (let ((p (open-input-ftp-file "anonymous:foo@ftp-sop.inria.fr/ls-lR.gz'')))
      (unwind-protect
         (read-string p)
         (close-input-port p)))
open-input-mmap mmap [start 0] [end] | bigloo procedure
`mmap` must be a mmap, and `start` and `end` must be exact integers satisfying:
      0 <= START <= END <= (mmap-length STRING)
The optional argument `end` defaults to `(mmap-length STRING)`. Returns an `input-port` able to deliver characters from `mmap`.
open-input-procedure procedure [buffer #t] | bigloo procedure
Returns an `input-port` able to deliver characters from `procedure`. Each time a character has to be read, the `procedure` is called. This procedure may returns a string of characters, or the boolean `#f`. This last value stands for the end of file. Example:
    (let ((p (open-input-procedure (let ((s #t))
    				  (lambda ()
    				     (if s
    					 (begin
                                                (set! s #f)
                                                "foobar")
    					 s))))))
       (read))
unread-char! char [input-port] | bigloo procedure
unread-string! string [input-port] | bigloo procedure
unread-substring! string start end [input-port] | bigloo procedure
Pushes the given `char`, `string` or substring into the input-port. The next read character(s) will be the pushed ones. The `input-port` must be buffered and not be closed. Example:
    (define p (open-input-string "a ymbol c"))
    (read p)                       => a
    (read-char p)                  => #\space
    (unread-char! #\s p)
    (read p)                       => symbol
    (read-char p)                  => #\space
    (read p)                       => c
    (char-ready? p)                => #f
    (unread-string! "sym1 sym2" p)
    (char-ready? p)                => #t
    (read p)                       => sym1
    (read p)                       => sym2
open-output-file file-name | procedure
The same syntax as `open-input-file` for file names applies here. When a file name starts with `|` , Bigloo opens an output pipe instead of a regular file.
append-output-file file-name | bigloo procedure
If `file-name` exists, this function returns an `output-port` on it, without removing it. New output will be appended to `file-name`. If `file-name` does not exist, it is created.
open-output-string | bigloo procedure
This function returns an output string port. This object has almost the same purpose as `output-port`. It can be used with all the printer functions which accept `output-port`. An output on a output string port memorizes all the characters written. An invocation of `flush-output-port` or `close-output-port` on an output string port returns a new string which contains all the characters accumulated in the port.
get-output-string output-port | bigloo procedure
Given an output port created by `open-output-string`, returns a string consisting of the characters that have been output to the port so far.
open-output-procedure proc [flush [close]] | bigloo procedure
This function returns an output procedure port. This object has almost the same purpose as `output-port`. It can be used with all the printer functions which accept `output-port`. An output on a output procedure port invokes the `proc` procedure each time it is used for writing. That is, `proc` is invoked with a string denoting the displayed characters. When the function `flush-output-port` is called on such a port, the optional `flush` procedure is invoked. When the function `close-output-port` is called on such a port, the optional `close` procedure is invoked.
close-input-port input-port | procedure
close-output-port output-port | procedure
According to R5RS, the value returned is unspecified. However, if output-port was created using `open-output-string`, the value returned is the string consisting of all characters sent to the port.
closed-input-port? input-port | procedure
closed-output-port? output-port | procedure
Predicates that return `#t` if and if their associated port is closed. Return `#f` otherwise.
input-port-name input-port | bigloo procedure
Returns the name of the file used to open the `input-port`.
input-port-position port | bigloo procedure
output-port-position port | bigloo procedure
Returns the current position (a character number), in the `port`.
set-input-port-position! port pos | bigloo procedure
set-output-port-position! port pos | bigloo procedure
These functions set the file position indicator for `port`. The new position, measured in bytes, is specified by `pos`. It is an error to seek a port that cannot be changed (for instance, a procedure or a console port). The result of these functions is unspecified. An error is raised if the position cannot be changed.
input-port-reopen! input-port | bigloo procedure
This function re-opens the input `input-port`. That is, it reset the position in the `input-port` to the first character.
read [input-port] | procedure
read/case case [input-port] | bigloo procedure
read-case-sensitive [input-port] | bigloo procedure
read-case-insensitive [input-port] | bigloo procedure
Read a lisp expression. The case sensitivity of `read` is unspecified. If have to to enforce a special behavior regarding the case, use `read/case`, `read-case-sensitive` or `read-case-insensitive`. Let us consider the following source code: The value of the `read/case`'s `case` argument may either be `upcase`, `downcase` or `sensitive`. Using any other value is an error.
    (define (main argv)
       (let loop ((exp (read-case-sensitive)))
          (if (not (eof-object? exp))
              (begin
                 (display "exp: ")
                 (write exp)
                 (display " [")
                 (display exp)
                 (display "]")
                 (print " eq?: " (eq? exp 'FOO) " " (eq? exp 'foo))
                 (loop (read-case-sensitive))))))
Thus:
    > a.out
    foo
      -| exp: foo [foo] eq?: #f #t
    FOO
      -| exp: FOO [FOO] eq?: #t #f
read/rp grammar port | bigloo procedure
read/lalrp lalrg rg port [emptyp] | bigloo procedure
These functions are fully explained in Regular Parsing, and Lalr Parsing.
define-reader-ctor symbol procedure | bigloo procedure
Note: This feature is experimental and might be removed in feature versions. The present SRFI-10 (http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-10/srfi-10.html) proposes an extensible external representation of Scheme values, a notational convention for future SRFIs. This SRFI adds `#,(` as a new token and extends production rules of the grammar for a Scheme reader. The `#,()` form can be used for example to denote values that do not have a convenient printed representation, as well for conditional code compilation. It is proposed that future SRFIs that contain new read syntax for values use the `#,()` notation with an appropriate tag symbol. As a particular example and the reference implementation for the `#,()` convention, this SRFI describes an interpretation of the `#,()` external form as a read-time application. Examples:
    (define-reader-ctor 'list list)
    (with-input-from-string "#,(list 1 2 #f \"4 5\")" read) => (1 2 #f "4 5")

    (define-reader-ctor '+ +)
    (with-input-from-string "#,(+ 1 2)" read) => 3
set-read-syntax! char procedure | bigloo procedure
Note: This feature is experimental and might be removed in feature versions. Registers a function `procedure` to be invoked with one argument, an input-port, that is invoked when the reader hits an unparsed character. Example:
    (set-read-syntax! #\{
       (lambda (port)
          (let loop ((c (peek-char port)) (exps '()))
    	 (cond ((eof-object? c)
    		(error "{" "EOF encountered while parsing { ... } clause" port))
    	       ((char=? c #\})
    		(read-char port)   ; discard
    		`(begin ,@(reverse exps)))
    	       ((char-whitespace? c)
    		(read-char port)   ; discard whitespace
    		(loop (peek-char port) exps))
    	       (else
    		(let ((exp (read port)))
    		   (loop (peek-char port)
                          (cons exp exps))))))))
read-char [port] | procedure
read-byte [port] | procedure
peek-char [port] | procedure
peek-byte [port] | procedure
eof-object? obj | procedure
char-ready? [port] | procedure
As specified in the R5Rs, r5rs, Ports, `char-ready?` returns `#t` if a character is ready on the input `port` and returns `#f` otherwise. If `char-ready` returns `#t` then the next `read-char` operation on the given `port` is guaranteed not to hang. If the `port` is at end of file then `char-ready?` returns `#t`. `Port` may be omitted, in which case it defaults to the value returned by `current-input-port`. When using `char-ready?` consider the latency that may exists before characters are available. For instance, executing the following source code:
    (let* ((proc (run-process "/bin/ls" "-l" "/bin" output: pipe:))
           (port (process-output-port proc)))
       (let loop ((line (read-line port)))
          (print "char ready " (char-ready? port))
          (if (eof-object? line)
              (close-input-port port)
              (begin
                 (print line)
                 (loop (read-line port))))))
Produces outputs such as:
    char ready #f
    total 7168
    char ready #f
    -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2896 Sep  6  2001 arch
    char ready #f
    -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        66428 Aug 25  2001 ash
    char ready #t
    ...
For a discussion of Bigloo processes, see Process. Note: Thanks to Todd Dukes for the example and the suggestion of including it this documentation.
read-line [input-port] | bigloo procedure
read-line-newline [input-port] | bigloo procedure
Reads characters from `input-port` until a `#\Newline`, a `#\Return` or an `end of file` condition is encountered. `read-line` returns a newly allocated string composed of the characters read. The strings returned by `read-line` do not contain the newline delimiters. The strings returned by `read-line-newline` do contain them.
read-lines [input-port] | bigloo procedure
Accumulates all the line of an `input-port` into a list.
read-of-strings [input-port] | bigloo procedure
Reads a sequence of non-space characters on `input-port`, makes a string of them and returns the string.
read-string [input-port] | bigloo procedure
Reads all the characters of `input-port` into a string.
read-chars size [input-port] | bigloo procedure
read-chars! buf size [input-port] | bigloo procedure
The function `read-chars` returns a newly allocated strings made of `size` characters read from `input-port` (or from `(current-input-port)` if `input-port` is not provided). If less than `size` characters are available on the input port, the returned string is smaller than `size`. Its size is the number of available characters. The function `read-chars!` fills the buffer `buf` with at most `size` characters.
read-fill-string! s o len [input-port] | bigloo procedure
Fills the string `s` starting at offset `o` with at most `len` characters read from the input port `input-port` (or from `(current-input-port)` if `input-port` is not provided). This function returns the number of read characters (which may be smaller than `len` if less characters are available) or the end of file object. The argument `len` is a small integer. The function `read-fill-string!` is similar to `read-chars!` except that it returns the end-of-file object on termination while `read-chars!` returns 0. Example:
    (let ((s (make-string 10 #\-)))
       (with-input-from-string "abcdefghijlkmnops"
          (lambda ()
             (read-fill-string! s 3 5)
             s)))
       => ---abcde--
port->string-list input-port | bigloo procedure
Returns a list of strings composed of the elements of `input-port`.
port->list input-port reader | bigloo procedure
port->sexp-list input-port | bigloo procedure
`Port->list` applies reader to port repeatedly until it returns EOF, then returns a list of results. `Port->list-sexp` is equivalent to `(port->list read port)`.
file->string path | bigloo procedure
This function builds a new string out of all the characters of the file `path`. If the file cannot be open or read, an `IO_EXCEPTION` is raised.
send-chars input-port output-port [len] [offset] | bigloo procedure
send-file filename output-port [len] [offset] | bigloo procedure
Transfer the characters from `input-port` to `output-port`. This procedure is sometimes mapped to a system call (such as `sendfile` under Linux) and might thus be more efficient than copying the ports by hand. The optional argument `offset` specifies an offset from which characters of `input-port` are sent. The function `send-chars` returns the number of characters sent. The function `send-file` opens the file `filename` in order to get its input port. On some backends, `send-file` might be more efficient than `send-chars` because it may avoid creating a full-fledged Bigloo `input-port`. Note that the type of `len` and `offset` is `elong` (i.e., exact long), which is also returned by `file-size`.
write obj [output-port] | library procedure
display obj [output-port] | library procedure
print obj ... | bigloo procedure
This procedure allows several objects to be displayed. When all these objects have been printed, `print` adds a newline.
display* obj ... | bigloo procedure
This function is similar to `print` but does not add a newline.
fprint output-port obj ... | bigloo procedure
This function is the same as `print` except that a port is provided.
write-char char [output-port] | procedure
write-byte byte [output-port] | procedure
These procedures write a char (respec. a byte, i.e., in integer in the range 0..255) to the `output-port`.
newline [output-port] | procedure
flush-output-port output-port | bigloo procedure
This procedure flushes the output port `output-port`. This function does not reset characters accumulated in string port. For this uses, `reset-output-port`.
newline [output-port] | procedure
reset-output-port output-port | bigloo procedure
This function is equivalent to `flush-output-port` but in addition, for string ports, it reset the internal buffer that accumulates the displayed characters.
format format-string [objs] | bigloo procedure
Note: Many thanks to Scott G. Miller who is the author of SRFI-28. Most of the documentation of this function is copied from the SRFI documentation. Accepts a message template (a Scheme String), and processes it, replacing any escape sequences in order with one or more characters, the characters themselves dependent on the semantics of the escape sequence encountered. An escape sequence is a two character sequence in the string where the first character is a tilde `~`. Each escape code's meaning is as follows: `~a` The corresponding value is inserted into the string as if printed with display. `~s` The corresponding value is inserted into the string as if printed with write. `~%` or `~n` A newline is inserted A newline is inserted. `~~` A tilde `~` is inserted. `~r` A return (`#\Return`) is inserted. `~v` The corresponding value is inserted into the string as if printed with display followed by a newline. This tag is hence equivalent to the sequence `~a~n`. `~c` The corresponding value must be a character and is inserted into the string as if printed with write-char. `~d`, `~x`, `~o`, `~b` The corresponding value must must be a number and is printed with radix 16, 8 or 2. `~l` If the corresponding value is a proper list, its items are inserted into the string, separated by whitespaces, without the surrounding parenthesis. If the corresponding value is not a list, it behaves as `~s`. `~(<sep>)` If the corresponding value is a proper list, its items are inserted into the string, separated from each other by `sep`, without the surrounding parenthesis. If the corresponding value is not a list, it behaves as `~s`. `~Ndxob` Print a number in `N` columns with space padding. `~N,<padding>dxob` Print a number in `num` columns with `padding` padding. `~a` and `~s`, when encountered, require a corresponding Scheme value to be present after the format string. The values provided as operands are used by the escape sequences in order. It is an error if fewer values are provided than escape sequences that require them. `~%` and `~~` require no corresponding value.
    (format "Hello, ~a" "World!")
       -| Hello, World!
    (format "Error, list is too short: ~s~%" '(one "two" 3))
       -| Error, list is too short: (one "two" 3)
    (format "a ~l: ~l" "list" '(1 2 3))
       -| a list: 1 2 3
    (format "a ~l: ~(, )" "list" '(1 2 3))
       -| a list: 1, 2, 3
    (format "~3d" 4)
       -|   4
    (format "~3,-d" 4)
       -| --4
    (format "~3x" 16)
       -|  10
    (format "~3,0d" 5)
       -| 005
printf format-string [objs] | bigloo procedure
fprintf port format-string [objs] | bigloo procedure
Formats `objs` to the current output port or to the specified `port`.
pp obj [output-port] | bigloo procedure
Pretty print `obj` on `output-port`.
*pp-case* | bigloo variable
Sets the variable to `respect`, `lower` or `upper` to change the case for pretty-printing.
*pp-width* | bigloo variable
The width of the pretty-print.
write-circle obj [output-port] | bigloo procedure
Display recursive object `obj` on `output-port`. Each component of the object is displayed using the `write` library function.
display-circle obj [output-port] | bigloo procedure
Display recursive object `obj` on `output-port`. Each component of the object is displayed using the `display` library function. For instance:
    (define l (list 1 2 3))
    (set-car! (cdr l) l)
    (set-car! (cddr l) l)
    (display-circle l)  -| #0=(1 #0# #0#)
display-string string output-port | bigloo procedure
display-substring string start end output-port | bigloo procedure
`String` must be a string, and `start` and `end` must be exact integers satisfying `0 <= start <= end <= (string-length string)`. `Display-substring` displays a string formed from the characters of string beginning with index `start` (inclusive) and ending with index `end` (exclusive).
password [prompt] | bigloo procedure
Reads a password from the current input port. The reading stops when the user hits the ,(code "Enter") key.
open-pipes [name] | bigloo procedure
Opens a bi-directional pipes. Returns two values, an `input-port` and an `output-port`. The optional argument `name` is only used for debugging. Example:
    (multiple-value-bind (in out)
      (open-pipes "my pipe")
      (write-char #\z out)
      (flush-output-port out))
select [:timeout 0] [:read '()] [:write '()] [:except '()] | bigloo procedure
A wrapper of the Posix `select` function. Returns three values, the three lists of objects that are ready for reading, respectively writing, or that are in error. Example:
    (define *inpipe* #f)
    (define *outpipe* #f)
    (define *watch-mutex* (make-mutex "watch"))
    (define *sockets* '())

    (define (watch socket onclose)
       (synchronize *watch-mutex*
          (set! *sockets* (cons socket *sockets*))
          (if *outpipe*
    	  (begin
    	     (write-char *outpipe*)
    	     (flush-output-port *outpipe*))
    	  (thread-start!
    	     (instantiate::hopthread
    		(body (watch-thread onclose)))))))

    (define (watch-thread onclose)
       (let loop ()
          (synchronize *watch-mutex*
    	 (unless *inpipe*
    	    (multiple-value-bind (in out)
    	       (open-pipes)
    	       (set! *inpipe* in)
    	       (set! *outpipe* out))))
          (multiple-value-bind (readfs _ _)
    	 (select :read (cons *inpipe* *sockets*))
    	 (let ((socks (filter socket? readfs)))
    	    (for-each onclose socks)
    	    (synchronize *watch-mutex*
    	       (for-each (lambda (s)
    			    (set! *sockets* (remq! s *sockets*)))
    		  socks)
    	       (unless (pair? *sockets*)
    		  (close-input-port *inpipe*)
    		  (close-output-port *outpipe*)
    		  (set! *inpipe* #f)
    		  (set! *outpipe* #f)))
    	    (when *outpipe*
    	       (loop))))))
lockf output-port command [len 0] | bigloo procedure
Lock a file descriptor or an output port. It is an error to call `lockf` with an port is not open on a plain file (i.e., a port open with `open-output-file`, or its variants). The `command` argument is one of: `lock`: locks the file, raises an error on failure. `ulock`: unlocks the file, raises an error on failure. `test`: tests whether a file is locked or not. `tlock`: tries to lock a file, return `#t` upon success and `#f` otherwise. The argument `len` is the portion of the file to be locked.
### 6.2.2 mmap
The `mmap` function asks to map a file into memory. This memory area can be randomly accessed as a string. In general using `mmap` improves performance in comparison with equivalent code using regular ports.
mmap? obj | bigloo procedure
Returns `#t` if and only if `obj` has been produced by `open-mmap`. Otherwise, it returns `#f`.
open-mmap path [mode] | bigloo procedure
Maps a file `path` into memory. The optional argument `mode` specifies how the file is open. The argument can be: `read: #t` The memory can be read `read: #f` The memory cannot be read `write: #t` The memory can be written `write: #f` The memory is read-only.
string->mmap string [mode] | bigloo procedure
Wrap a Bigloo string into a mmap object.
mmap-name mm | bigloo procedure
Returns the file name of the memory map `mm`.
close-mmap mm | bigloo procedure
Closes the memory mapped. Returns `#t` on success, `#f` otherwise.
mmap-length mm | bigloo procedure
Returns the length, an exact integer, of the memory mapped.
mmap-read-position mm | bigloo procedure
mmap-read-position-set! mm offset | bigloo procedure
mmap-write-position mm | bigloo procedure
mmap-write-position-set! mm offset | bigloo procedure
Returns and sets the read and write position of a memory mapped memory. The result and the argument are exact integers.
mmap-ref mm offset | bigloo procedure
Reads the character in `mm` at `offset`, an exact long (::elong). This function sets the read position to `offset + 1`.
mmap-set! mm offset char | bigloo procedure
Writes the character `char` in `mm` at `offset`, an exact long (::elong). This function sets the write position to `offset + 1`.
mmap-substring mm start end | bigloo procedure
Returns a newly allocated string made of the characters read from `mm` starting at position `start` and ending at position `end - 1`. If the values `start` and `end` are not ranged in `[0...(mmap-length mm)]`, an error is signaled. The function `mmap-substring` sets the read position to `end`.
mmap-substring-set! mm start str | bigloo procedure
Writes the string `str` to `mm` at position `start`. If the values `start` and `start + (string-length str)` are not ranged in `[0...(mmap-length mm)[`, an error is signaled. The function `mmap-substring` sets the write position to `start + (string-length str)`.
mmap-get-char mm | bigloo procedure
mmap-put-char! mm c | bigloo procedure
mmap-get-string mm len | bigloo procedure
mmap-put-string! mm str | bigloo procedure
These functions get (resp. put) character and strings into a memory mapped area. They increment the read (resp. write) position. An error is signaled if the characters read (resp. writen) outbound the length of the memory mapped.
### 6.2.3 zip
port->gzip-port input-port [buffer #t] | bigloo procedure
port->zlib-port input-port [buffer #t] | bigloo procedure
port->inflate-port input-port [buffer #t] | bigloo procedure
These functions take a regular port as input (`input-port`). They construct a new port that automatically unzip the read characters. The `inflate` version does not parse a gunzip-header before inflating the content.
open-input-inflate-file path [buffer #t] | bigloo procedure
These function open a gzipped file for input. The file is automatically unzipped when the characters are read. It is equivalent to:
    (let ((p (open-input-port path)))
      (port->gzip-port p))
The function `open-input-inflate-file` is similar to `open-input-gzip-file` but it does not parse a gunzip-header before inflating the content.
gunzip-sendchars input-port output-port | bigloo procedure
inflate-sendchars input-port output-port | bigloo procedure
Transmit all the characters from the gzipped `input-port` to the `output-port`. Note that the function `send-chars` can also be used on gzipped input-ports.
gunzip-parse-header input-port | bigloo procedure
Parse the header of `input-port`. Returns `#f` if and only if the port is not gzipped.
### 6.2.4 tar
tar-read-header [input-port] | bigloo procedure
Reads a tar header from `input-port`. If the input-port does not conform the tar format, an IO exception is raised. On success a tar-header descriptor is returned.
tar-read-block tar-header [input-port] | bigloo procedure
Reads the content of the `tar-header` block.
tar-round-up-to-record-size int | bigloo procedure
Rounds up tar-block sizes.
tar-header-name tar-header | bigloo procedure
tar-header-mode tar-header | bigloo procedure
tar-header-uid tar-header | bigloo procedure
tar-header-gid tar-header | bigloo procedure
tar-header-size tar-header | bigloo procedure
tar-header-mtim tar-header | bigloo procedure
tar-header-checksum tar-header | bigloo procedure
tar-header-type tar-header | bigloo procedure
tar-header-linkname tar-header | bigloo procedure
tar-header-uname tar-header | bigloo procedure
tar-header-gname tar-header | bigloo procedure
tar-header-devmajor tar-header | bigloo procedure
tar-header-devminir tar-header | bigloo procedure
Return various information about `tar-header`.
The following example simulates the Unix command `tar xvfz`:
    (define (untar path)
       (let ((pz (open-input-gzip-port path)))
          (unwind-protect
    	 (let loop ((lst '()))
    	    (let ((h (tar-read-header pz)))
    	       (if (not h)
    		   lst
    		   (case (tar-header-type h)
    		      ((dir)
    		       (let ((path (tar-header-name h)))
    			  (if (make-directory path)
    			      (loop lst)
    			      (error 'untar
    				     "Cannot create directory"
    				     path))))
    		      ((normal)
    		       (let* ((path (tar-header-name h))
    			      (dir (dirname path)))
    			  (when (and (file-exists? dir) (not (directory? dir)))
    			     (delete-file dir))
    			  (unless (file-exists? dir)
    			     (make-directory dir))
    			  (with-output-to-file path
    			     (lambda ()
    				(display (tar-read-block h pz))))
    			  (loop (cons path lst))))
    		      (else
    		       (error 'untar
    			      (format "Illegal file type `~a'"
    				      (tar-header-type h))
    			      (tar-header-name h)))))))
    	 (close-input-port pz))))
untar input-port [:directory (pwd)] [:file #f] | bigloo procedure
Untars the archive whose content is provided by the input port `input-port`. If `:file` is provided, `untar` extract the content of the file named `:file` and returns a string. The file name must exactly matches the files of the archive files names. If the file does not exist, `untar` returns `#f`. If `:file` is not provided, it untars the whole content, in the directory denoted by `:directory`, which defaults to `(pwd)`. The function `untar`, returns the whole list of created directories and files.
### 6.3 Serialization
string->obj string #!optional extension | bigloo procedure
This function converts a `string` which has been produced by `obj->string` into a Bigloo object. New in Bigloo 4.2a: The `extension` parameter is used to decode extension sequences. Theses sequences of characters are introduced by the `X` character. To decode an extension, the unserializer starts decoding the item following the `X` as a regular serialized item. Then, if the `extension` parameter is bound to a function, the unserializer calls that function and use the returned value as the unserialized object. If the `extension` argument is not a function, the unserializer return the ream item.
obj->string object | bigloo procedure
This function converts into a string any Bigloo `object` which does not contain a procedure.
The implementation of the last two functions ensures that for every Bigloo object `obj` (containing no procedure), the expression:
    (equal? obj (string->obj (obj->string obj)))
       => #t
binary-port? obj | bigloo procedure
open-output-binary-file file-name | bigloo procedure
append-output-binary-file file-name | bigloo procedure
open-input-binary-file file-name | bigloo procedure
close-binary-port binary-port | bigloo procedure
flush-binary-port binary-port | bigloo procedure
input-obj binary-port | bigloo procedure
output-obj binary-port obj | bigloo procedure
Bigloo allows Scheme objects to be dumped into, and restored from, files. These operations are performed by the previous functions. The dump and the restore use the two functions `obj->string` and `string->obj`. It is also possible to use a binary file as a flat character file. This can be done by the means of `output-char`, `input-char`, `output-string`, and `input-string` functions.
input-char binary-port | bigloo procedure
output-char binary-port char | bigloo procedure
output-byte binary-port byte | bigloo procedure
The function `input-char` reads a single character from a `binary-port`. It returns the read character or the `end-of-file` object. The function `output-char` and `output-byte` writes a character, respectively a byte, into a `binary-port`.
input-string binary-port len | bigloo procedure
output-string binary-port | bigloo procedure
The function `input-string` reads a string from a `binary-port` of maximum length `len`. It returns a newly allocated string whose length is possibly smaller than `len`. The function `output-string` writes a string into a `binary-port`.
input-fill-string! binary-port string | bigloo procedure
Fills a string with characters read from `binary-port` with at most the length of `string`. The function returns the number of filled characters.
register-procedure-serialization! serializer unserializer | bigloo procedure
register-custom-serialization! ident serializer unserializer | bigloo procedure
register-process-serialization! serializer unserializer | bigloo procedure
register-opaque-serialization! serializer unserializer | bigloo procedure
There is no existing portable method to dump and restore a procedure. Thus, if `obj->string` is passed a procedure, it will emit an error message. Sometime, using strict restrictions, it may be convenient to use an ad-hoc framework to serialize and unserialize procedures. User may specify there own procedure serializer and unserializer. This is the role of `register-procedure-serialization!`. The argument `serializer` is a procedure of one argument, converting a procedure into a characters strings. The argument `unserializer` is a procedure of one argument, converting a characters string into a procedure. It belongs to the user to provide correct serializer and unserializer. Here is an example of procedure serializer and unserializer that may be correct under some Unix platform:
    (module foo
       (extern (macro %sprintf::int (::string ::string ::procedure) "sprintf")))

    (define (string->procedure str)
       (pragma "(obj_t)(strtoul(BSTRING_TO_STRING($1), 0, 16))" str))

    (define (procedure->string proc)
       (let ((item (make-string 10)))
          (%sprintf item "#p%lx" proc)
          item))

    (register-procedure-serialization! procedure->string string->procedure)

    (let ((x 4))
       (let ((obj (cons "toto" (lambda (y) (+ x y)))))
          (let ((nobj (string->obj (obj->string obj))))
    	 (print ((cdr nobj) 5)))))
register-class-serialization! class serializer unserializer | bigloo procedure
Register a serializer/unserializer for a class. Subclasses of `class` inherit this serializer.
    (module class-serialization-example
       (static (class point::object (x (default 10)) (y (default 20)))))

    (register-class-serialization! point
    			       (lambda (o)
    				  (with-access::point o (x y)
    				     (cons x y)))
    			       (lambda (l)
    				  (instantiate::point
    				     (x (car l))
    				     (y (cdr l)))))

    (let ((o (instantiate::point)))
       (let ((s (obj->string (list o o))))
          (print (string-for-read s))
          (let ((l (string->obj s)))
    	 (print l)
    	 (eq? (car l) (cadr l))))) => #t
get-procedure-serialization | bigloo procedure
get-custom-serialization ident | bigloo procedure
get-process-serialization | bigloo procedure
get-opaque-serialization | bigloo procedure
get-class-serialization class | bigloo procedure
Returns the a multiple-values whose first element is the current procedure serializer and whose second element is the current procedure unserializer. If no serializer/unserializer is defined, these procedures return the values `#f #f`.
### 6.4 Bit manipulation
These procedures allow the manipulation of fixnums as bit-fields.
bit-or i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-orbx z1 z2 | bigloo procedure
bit-orelong i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-orllong i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-xor i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-xorbx z1 z2 | bigloo procedure
bit-xorelong i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-xorllong i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-and i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-andbx z1 z2 | bigloo procedure
bit-andelong i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-andllong i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-not i | bigloo procedure
bit-notbx z | bigloo procedure
bit-notelong i | bigloo procedure
bit-notllong i | bigloo procedure
bit-lsh i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-lshbx z1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-lshelong i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-lshllong i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-rsh i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-rshbx z1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-ursh i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-rshelong i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-rshllong i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-urshelong i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
bit-urshllong i1 i2 | bigloo procedure
    (bit-or 5 3)                           => 7
    (bit-orelong #e5 #e3)                  => #e7
    (bit-xor 5 3)                          => 6
    (bit-xorbx #z5 #z3)                    => #z6
    (bit-andllong #l5 #l3)                 => #l1
    (bit-not 5)                            => -6
    (bit-lsh 5 3)                          => 40
    (bit-rsh 5 1)                          => 2
    (bit-rsh #z5 1)                        => #z2
### 6.5 Weak Pointers
Bigloo may support weak pointers. In order to activate this support, Bigloo must be configured with the `finalization` enabled. That is, the `configure` script must be invoked with the option `--finalization=yes`. When the finalization and weak pointers support is enabled, Bigloo defines the `cond-expand` properties `bigloo-finalizer` and `bigloo-weakptr`. Then a program may test the support with expressions such as:
    (cond-expand
      (bigloo-weakptr <something>)
      (else <something-else>))
Weak pointers are pointers to objects which can be collected by the garbage collector if they are weakly pointed to. An object is weakly pointed to if the only pointers to it are weak pointers. Weakly pointed objects can be collected by the garbage collector, and all the weak pointers to such objects will cease to point to it and point to `#unspecified` instead.
make-weakptr data | bigloo procedure
make-weakptr data ref | bigloo procedure
Creates a weak pointer to `data` and `ref`.
weakptr? obj | bigloo procedure
Returns `#t` if `obj` is a weak pointer, constructed by `make-weakptr`.
weakptr-data ptr | bigloo procedure
Returns the `data` object pointed to by `ptr`. If the object has been collected, it returns `#unspecified`.
weakptr-data-set! ptr data | bigloo procedure
Set a new `data` to the weak pointer.
weakptr-ref ptr | bigloo procedure
Returns the `ref` object pointed to by `ptr`. If the object has been collected, it returns `#unspecified`.
weakptr-ref-set! ptr ref | bigloo procedure
Set a new `ref` to the weak pointer.
### 6.6 Hash Tables
Bigloo offers hash tables with support for weak pointers. Here are described functions which define and use them.
make-hashtable [bucket-len] [max-bucket-len] [eqtest] [hash] [weak-keys] [weak-data] | bigloo procedure
create-hashtable [:size] [:max-bucket-len] [:eqtest] [:hash] [:weak] [:max-length] [:bucket-expansion] [:persistent #f] | bigloo procedure
Defines a hash table for which the number of buckets is `size`. The variable `max-bucket-len` specify when the table should be resized. If provided, these two values have to be exact integers greater or equal to 1. Normally you could ignore `size` and `max-bucket-len` arguments and call `make-hashtable` with no argument at all. The argument `eqtest` enables the specification of a comparison function. The first argument of this function is the keys contained in the table. The second argument is the searched key. By default, hash tables rely on `hashtable-equal?`, which is defined as: Persistent hashtables are serializable. Non persistent hashtables are not.
    (define (hashtable-equal? obj1 obj2)
       (or (eq? obj1 obj2)
           (and (string? obj1)
                (string? obj2)
                (string=? obj1 obj2))))
The argument `hash` specifies an hashing function. It defaults to `get-hashnumber`. The arguments `weak-keys`, `weak-data`, and `weak-both` specify respectively whether the hash table should use weak pointers to store the keys and/or the data. By default a hash table uses strong pointers for both keys and data. Each optional arguments `size`, `max-bucket-len`, `eqtest`, `hash`, `weak-keys`, and `weak-data` can be bound to the Bigloo value `#unspecified` which forces its default. The argument `max-length` specifies a maximum length (in number of buckets) for this hashtable. It defaults to `16384`. If during the execution, the hashtable tries to expand itself more than `max-length`, an exception is raised. This feature helps debugging incorrect hashtable uses because excessive expansion is generally the signs of an incorrect behavior. Excessive expansions, cause the garbage collector to crash at some point. This debugging feature can be disabled by specifying a negative max length, in which case, no check is performed at runtime. The argument `bucket-expansion` controls how `max-bucket-len` is expanded each time the table grows. This is a floating point number that is a multiplicative coefficient. It defaults to `1.2`. The function `create-hashtable` is equivalent to `make-hashtable` but it uses a keyword interface. The keyword argument `weak` can either be `none`, `data`, or `keys`.
hashtable? obj | bigloo procedure
Returns `#t` if `obj` is an hash table, constructed by `make-hashtable`.
hashtable-weak-keys? table | bigloo procedure
Returns `#t` if `table` is a hash table with weakly pointed keys.
hashtable-weak-data? table | bigloo procedure
Returns `#t` if `table` is a hash table with weakly pointed data.
hashtable-size table | bigloo procedure
Returns the number of entries contained in `table`. Note that for a weak hash table the size does not guarantee the real size, since keys and/or data can dissapear before the next call to the hash table.
hashtable-contains? table key | bigloo procedure
Returns the boolean `#t` if it exists at least one entry whose key is `key` in `table`. If not entry is found `#f` is returned. Note that for a weak hash table, the fact this procedure returns `#t` does not guarantee that the key (or its associated data) will not dissapear before the next call to the hash table.
hashtable-get table key | bigloo procedure
Returns the entry whose key is `key` in `table`. If no entry is found, or if the key and/or value is weakly pointed to and has dissapeard, `#f` is returned.
hashtable-put! table key obj | bigloo procedure
Puts `obj` in `table` under the key `key`. This function returns the object bound in the table. If there was an object `obj-old` already in the table with the same key as `obj`, this function returns `obj-old`; otherwise it returns `obj`.
hashtable-remove! table key | bigloo procedure
Removes the object associated to `key` from `table`, returning `#t` if such object was bound in table and `#f` otherwise.
hashtable-add! table key update-fun obj init-value | bigloo procedure
If key is already in table, the new value is calculated by `(update-fun obj current-value)`. Otherwise the `table` is extended by an entry linking key and `(update-fun obj init-value)`.
hashtable-update! table key update-fun init-value | deprecated bigloo procedure
If key is already in table, the new value is calculated by `(update-fun current-value)`. Otherwise the `table` is extended by an entry linking key and `init-value`.
hashtable->vector table | bigloo procedure
hashtable->list table | bigloo procedure
Returns the hash table `table`'s data as a vector (respectively a list). If the hash table is weak, the result will consist only of the data which haven't dissapeared yet and whose keys haven't dissapeared either.
hashtable-key-list table | bigloo procedure
Returns the list of keys used in the `table`. If the hash table is weak, the result will consist only of the keys which haven't dissapeared yet and whose data haven't dissapeared either.
hashtable-map table fun | bigloo procedure
Returns a list whose elements are the result of applying `fun` to each of the keys and elements of `table` (no order is specified). In consequence, `fun` must be a procedure of two arguments. The first one is a key and the second one, an associated object. If the hash table is weak, `fun` will only be mapped on sets of key/datum which haven't dissapeared yet.
hashtable-for-each table fun | bigloo procedure
Applies `fun` to each of the keys and elements of `table` (no order is specified). In consequence, `fun` must be a procedure of two arguments. The first one is a key and the second one, an associated object. If the hash table is weak, `fun` will only be called on sets of key/datum which haven't dissapeared yet.
hashtable-filter! table fun | bigloo procedure
Filter out elements from `table` according to predicate `fun`. If the hash table is weak, `fun` will only be called on sets of key/datum which haven't dissapeared yet.
hashtable-clear! table | bigloo procedure
Remove all the elements from `table`.
Here is an example of hash table.
    (define *table* (make-hashtable))

    (hashtable-put! *table* "toto" "tutu")
    (hashtable-put! *table* "tata" "titi")
    (hashtable-put! *table* "titi" 5)
    (hashtable-put! *table* "tutu" 'tutu)
    (hashtable-put! *table* 'foo 'foo)

    (print (hashtable-get *table* "toto"))
       -| "tutu"
    (print (hashtable-get *table* 'foo))
       -| 'foo
    (print (hashtable-get *table* 'bar))
       -| #f

    (hashtable-for-each *table* (lambda (key obj) (print (cons key obj))))
       -| ("toto" . "tutu")
          ("tata" . "titi")
          ("titi" . 5)
          ("tutu" . TUTU)
          (foo . foo)
hashtable-collisions table | bigloo procedure
Returns a list of collisions for the keys from `table`. A collision is represented by the number of extra steps (comparisons) needed for a key. The length of the result gives the number of keys with collisions, and the sum of all list elements is the sum of all extra steps needed. This function can help to test different hash functions and other hash table parameters.
get-hashnumber obj | bigloo procedure
get-hashnumber-persistent obj | bigloo procedure
Computes a hash number of the value `obj`, which can be of any type. The function `get-hashnumber-persistent` returns a hash number that is persistent accross program executions and execution platforms.
object-hashnumber object | bigloo generic
This generic function computes a hash number of the instance `object`. Example:
    (define-method (object-hashnumber pt::point)
       (with-access::point pt (x y)
          (+fx (*fx x 10) y)))
string-hash string [start 0] [len (string-length string)] | bigloo procedure
Compute a hash value for `string`, starting at index `start`, ending at length `len`.
### 6.7 Algorithms
### 6.8 Single Source Reachability Graphs
Single source reachability (SSR) graphs enable constant time ownership of a node. They can be used to build graphs, add nodes and edges, remove and replace edges, and then test if after such a modification a certain node is still reachable from the root. A naive implementation would traverse the whole graph from the root, paying attention to cycle to check the ownership. SSR does this efficiently without any traversal. The algorithm assumes that nodes are represented by integer labels. Example:
    (define g (ssr-make-graph :source 1))
    (ssr-add-edge! g 1 2 :onconnect (lambda (n) (print n)))       -| 2
    (ssr-add-edge! g 2 3 :onconnect (lambda (n) (print n)))       -| 3
    (ssr-add-edge! g 3 4 :onconnect (lambda (n) (print n)))       -| 4
    (ssr-add-edge! g 4 2 :onconnect (lambda (n) (print n)))
    (ssr-connected? g 3)                                          => #t
    (ssr-add-edge! g 2 5 :onconnect (lambda (n) (print n)))       -| 5
    (ssr-connected? g 3)                                          => #t
    (ssr-redirect! g 3 5 :onconnect (lambda (n) (print n)))
    (ssr-connected? g 3)                                          => #f
    (ssr-redirect! g 5 3 :onconnect (lambda (n) (print n)))       -| 3 4
    (ssr-connected? g 3)                                          => #t
    (ssr-remove-edge! g 3 4 :ondisconnect (lambda (n) (print n))) -| 4
    (ssr-connected? g 4)                                          => #f
ssr-make-graph #!key (source 0) | bigloo procedure
Builds an SSR graph.
ssr-add-edge! graph from to #!key onconnect | bigloo procedure
Add an edge to an SSR graph. If FROM and TO, two integers, are not already members of the graph, they are added as well as a connecting edge. The optional argument ONCONNECT is a function of one argument.
ssr-remove-edge! graph from to #!key ondisconnect | bigloo procedure
Remove the edge from an SSR graph connecting FROM and TO (two integers). The optional argument ONDISCONNECT is a function of one argument.
ssr-redirect! graph node other #!key onconnect ondisconnect | bigloo procedure
Redirect edges from an SSR graph. Edges pointing to NODE are redirected to OTHER. The optional arguments ONCONNECT and ONDISCONNECT are functions of one argument.
ssr-connected? graph node | bigloo procedure
Check is NODE is reachable from the graph source.
### 6.9 System programming
### 6.9.1 Operating System interface
bigloo-config | bigloo procedure
bigloo-config key | bigloo procedure
The function `bigloo-config` returns an alist representing the configuration of the running Bigloo system. When used with one parameter, the function `bigloo-config` returns the value associated with the key. Examples:
    (bigloo-config) => ((release-number . 3.4b) ... (endianess . little-endian))
    (bigloo-config 'endianess) => little-endian
    (bigloo-config 'int-size) => 61
register-exit-function! proc | bigloo procedure
unregister-exit-function! proc | bigloo procedure
Register `proc` as an exit functions. `Proc` is a procedure accepting of one argument. This argument is the numerical value which is the status of the exit call. The registered functions are called when the execution ends.
exit int | bigloo procedure
Apply all the registered exit functions then stops an execution, returning the integer `int`.
gc-verbose-set! bool | bigloo procedure
Enable/disable GC traces. Bigloo defines the `cond-expand` `gc` keyword, which enables applications to use this function.
gc [:finalize #t] | bigloo procedure
Force a garbage collection. If `finalize` is non-false, invoke the finalizers. Bigloo defines the `cond-expand` `gc` keyword, which enables applications to use this function.
gc-finalize | bigloo procedure
Force a garbage collection finalization. Bigloo defines the `cond-expand` `gc` keyword, which enables applications to use this function.
signal n proc | bigloo procedure
Provides a signal handler for the operating system dependent signal `n`. `proc` is a procedure of one argument.
get-signal-handler n | bigloo procedure
Returns the current handler associated with signal `n` or `#f` if no handler is installed.
system . strings | bigloo procedure
Append all the arguments `strings` and invoke the native host `system` command on that new string which returns an integer.
system->string . strings | bigloo procedure
Append all the arguments `strings` and invoke the native host `system` command on that new string. If the command completes, `system->string` returns a string made of the output of the command.
getenv [name] | bigloo procedure
Returns the string value of the Unix shell's `name` variable. If no such variable is bound, `getenv` returns `#f`. If `name` is not provided, `getenv` returns an alist composed of all the environment variables.
putenv string val | bigloo procedure
Adds or modifies the global environment variable `string` so that it is bound to `val` after the call. This facility is not supported by all back-end. In particular, the JVM back-end does not support it.
date | bigloo procedure
Returns the current date in a `string`. See also Date.
sleep micros | bigloo procedure
Sleeps for a delay during at least `micros` microseconds.
command-line | bigloo procedure
Returns a list of strings which are the Unix command line arguments.
executable-name | bigloo procedure
Returns the name of the running executable.
os-class | bigloo procedure
Gives the OS class (e.g. `unix`).
os-name | bigloo procedure
Gives the OS name (e.g. `Linux`).
os-arch | bigloo procedure
Gives the host architecture (e.g. `i386`).
os-version | bigloo procedure
Gives the operating system version (e.g. `RedHat 2.0.27`).
os-tmp | bigloo procedure
Gives the regular temporary directory (e.g. `/tmp`).
os-charset | bigloo procedure
Gives the charset used for encoding names of the file system (e.g. `UTF-8`).
file-separator | bigloo procedure
Gives the operating system file separator (e.g. `#\/`).
path-separator | bigloo procedure
Gives the operating system file path separator (e.g.`#\:`).
For additional functions (such as `directory->list`) see Input and Output.
unix-path->list | bigloo procedure
Converts a Unix path to a Bigloo list of strings.
    (unix-path->list ".")           => (".")
    (unix-path->list ".:/usr/bin")  => ("." "/usr/bin")
hostname | bigloo procedure
Returns the fully qualified name of the current host.
time thunk | bigloo procedure
Evaluates the `thunk` and returns four values: the result of calling `thunk`, the actual execution time, the system time, and the user time in millisecond.
    (multiple-value-bind (res rtime stime utime)
      (time (lambda () (fib 35)))
      (print "real: " rtime " sys: " stime " user: " utime))
getuid | bigloo procedure
getgid | bigloo procedure
setuid uid | bigloo procedure
setgid uid | bigloo procedure
The procedure `getuid` (resp. `getgid`) returns the UID (resp. GID) of the user the current process is executed on behalf of. The procedure `setuid` (resp. `setgid`) set the UID (resp. GID) of the current process. In case of failure, this procedure raises an error.
getpid | bigloo procedure
Get the current process identifier.
getppid | bigloo procedure
Get the parent process identifier.
getgroups | bigloo procedure
Maps the Posix `getgroups` function, which returns the supplementary group IDs of the calling process. The result is a vector of IDs. On error, an IO exception is raised.
getpwnam name | bigloo procedure
getpwuid uid | bigloo procedure
These two procedures returns information about a user. The procedure `getpwname` accepts a string denoting the user name as argument. The procedure `getpwuid` accepts an UID as returned by the procedure `getuid`. If the user is found, these two procedures returns a list of seven elements: the user name, his encrypted password, his uid, his group id, his real name, his home directory, his preferred shell. When no user is found, these procedures returns `#f`.
openlog name option facility | bigloo procedure
syslog level . obj | bigloo procedure
closelog | bigloo procedure
syslog-option | bigloo procedure
syslog-level | bigloo procedure
syslog-facility | bigloo procedure
Wrapper to Unix syslog facilities. See the `syslog` man page for detail. Example.
    (openlog "foo.scm" (syslog-option 'LOG_PID 'LOG_ODELAY) (syslog-facility 'LOG_MAIL))
    (syslog (syslog-level 'LOG_INFO) "this is a log message")
    (closelog)
getrlimit resource | bigloo procedure
setrlimit! resource soft hard | bigloo procedure
Get/set system limits. Only suppported by the C backend! The function `getrlimit` expects as argument a resource and it returns two values: a soft and a hard limit. Both values are `elong`. The function `setrlimit!` accepts a resource, a soft limit, and a hard limit. The soft and hard limits are either a `elong` value or `+inf.0` to denote unlimited value. The function returns a boolean, which is `#t` if the limit has been changed, and `#f` otherwise. A resource is either a fixnum, which must correspond to a native resource identifier, or a symbol amongst: `CORE` `CPU` `DATA` `FSIZE` `LOCKS` `MEMLOCK` `MSGQUEUE` `NICE` `NOFILE` `NPROC` `RSS` `RTTIME` `SIGPENDING` `STACK` All other symbols trigger an error. Bigloo defines the `cond-expand` `rlimit` keyword, which enables applications to use the two functions conditionally.
    (multiple-value-bind (soft hard)
      (getrlimit 'NOFILE)
      (cons soft hard)) => (#e1024 . #e1048576)
    (setrlimit 'NOFILE #e256 #e1048576) => #t
    (cond-expand
       (rlimit 'supported)
       (else 'unsupported)) => supported
### 6.9.2 Files
See Input and Output for file and directory handling. This section only deals with name handling. Four procedures exist to manipulate Unix filenames.
basename string | bigloo procedure
Returns a copy of `string` where the longest prefix ending in `/` is deleted if any existed.
prefix string | bigloo procedure
Returns a copy of `string` where the suffix starting by the char `#\.` is deleted. If no prefix is found, the result of `prefix` is a copy of `string`. For instance:
    (prefix "foo.scm")
       => "foo"
    (prefix "./foo.scm")
       => "./foo"
    (prefix "foo.tar.gz")
       => "foo.tar"
suffix string | bigloo procedure
Returns a new string which is the suffix of `string`. If no suffix is found, this function returns an empty string. For instance,
    (suffix "foo.scm")
       => "scm"
    (suffix "./foo.scm")
       => "scm"
    (suffix "foo.tar.gz")
       => "gz"
dirname string | bigloo procedure
Returns a new string which is the directory component of `string`. For instance:
    (dirname "abc/def/ghi")
       => "abc/def"
    (dirname "abc")
       =>  "."
    (dirname "abc/")
       => "abc"
    (dirname "/abc")
       => "/"
pwd | bigloo procedure
Returns the current working directory.
chdir dir-name | bigloo procedure
Changes the current directory to `dir-name`. On success, `chdir` returns `#t`. On failure it returns `#f`.
make-file-name dir-name name | bigloo procedure
Make an absolute file-name from a directory name `dir-name` and a relative name `name`.
make-file-path dir-name name . names | bigloo procedure
Make an absolute file-name from a directory name `dir-name` and a relative name `name`s.
file-name->list name | bigloo procedure
Explodes a file name into a list.
    (file-name->list "/etc/passwd")
       => '("" "etc" "passwd")
    (file-name->list "etc/passwd")
       => '("etc" "passwd")
file-name-canonicalize name | bigloo procedure
file-name-canonicalize! name | bigloo procedure
file-name-unix-canonicalize name | bigloo procedure
file-name-unix-canonicalize! name | bigloo procedure
Canonicalizes a file name. If the file name is malformed this function raises an `&io-malformed-url-error` exception. The function `file-name-canonicalize!` may returns its argument if no changes in the string is needed. Otherwise, as `file-name-canonicalize` is returns a new string. In addition to handling `..` directory name, the function `file-name-unix-canonicalize` also handles the `~` character.
    (file-name-canonicalize "/etc/passwd")
       => "/etc/passwd"
    (file-name-canonicalize "/etc/../tmp/passwd")
       => "/tmp/passwd"
    (file-name-canonicalize "~/passwd")
       => "~/passwd"
    (file-name-unix-canonicalize "~/passwd")
       => "/home/a-user/passwd"
    (file-name-unix-canonicalize "~foo/passwd")
       => "/home/foo/passwd"
relative-file-name name base | bigloo procedure
Builds a file name relative to `base`.
    (relative-file-name "/etc/passwd" "/etc"
       => "passwd"
find-file/path name path | bigloo procedure
Search, in sequence, in the directory list `path` for the file `name`. If `name` is an absolute name, then `path` is not used to find the file. If `name` is a relative name, the function `make-file-name` is used to build absolute name from `name` and the directories in `path`. The current path is not included automatically in the list of `path`. In consequence, to check the current directory one may add `"."` to the `path` list. On success, the absolute file name is returned. On failure, `#f` is returned. Example:
    (find-file/path "/etc/passwd" '("/toto" "/titi"))
       => "/etc/passwd"
    (find-file/path "passwd" '("/toto" "/etc"))
       => "/etc/passwd"
    (find-file/path "pass-wd" '("." "/etc"))
       => #f
make-static-library-name name | bigloo procedure
Make a static library name from `name` by adding the static library regular suffix.
make-shared-library-name name | bigloo procedure
Make a shared library name from `name` by adding the shared library regular suffix.
file-exists? string | bigloo procedure
This procedure returns `#t` if the file (respectively directory, and link) `string` exists. Otherwise it returns `#f`.
file-gzip? string | bigloo procedure
This procedure returns `#t` if and only if the file `string` exists and can be unzip by Bigloo. Otherwise it returns `#f`.
delete-file string | bigloo procedure
Deletes the file named `string`. The result of this procedure is `#t` is the operation succeeded. The result is `#f` otherwise.
rename-file string1 string2 | bigloo procedure
Renames the file `string1` as `string2`. The two files have to be located on the same file system. If the renaming succeeds, the result is `#t`, otherwise it is `#f`.
truncate-file path size | bigloo procedure
Truncates shall cause the regular file named by path to have a size which shall be equal to length bytes. Returns `#t` on success. Returns `#f` otherwise.
copy-file string1 string2 | bigloo procedure
Copies the file `string1` into `string2`. If the copy succeeds, the result is `#t`, otherwise it is `#f`.
make-symlink target linkpath | bigloo procedure
Creates a symbolic link named `linkpath` which contains the string `target`.
directory? string | bigloo procedure
This procedure returns `#t` if the file `string` exists and is a directory. Otherwise it returns `#f`.
make-directory string | bigloo procedure
Creates a new directory named `string`. It returns `#t` if the directory was created. It returns `#f` otherwise.
make-directories string | bigloo procedure
Creates a new directory named `string`, including any necessary but nonexistent parent directories. It returns `#t` if the directory was created. It returns `#f` otherwise. Note that if this operation fails it may have succeeded in creating some of the necessary parent directories.
delete-directory string | bigloo procedure
Deletes the directory named `string`. The directory must be empty in order to be deleted. The result of this procedure is unspecified.
directory-length string | bigloo procedure
If file `string` exists and is a directory, the function `directory-length` returns the number of entries contained in `string`.
directory->list string | bigloo procedure
directory->path-list string | bigloo procedure
If file `string` exists and is a directory, the function `directory->list` returns the list of files in `string`. The function `directory->path-list` returns a list of files whose dirname is `string`.
directory->vector string | bigloo procedure
directory->path-vector string | bigloo procedure
If file `string` exists and is a directory, the function `directory->vector` returns a vector of files in `string`. The function `directory->path-vector` returns a vector of files whose dirname is `string`.
file-modification-time string | bigloo procedure
file-change-time string | bigloo procedure
file-access-time string | bigloo procedure
file-times-set! string atime mtime | bigloo procedure
The date (in second) of the last modification (respec. access) for file `string`. The number of seconds is represented by a value that may be converted into a date by the means of `seconds->date` (see Date).
file-size string | bigloo procedure
Returns the size (in bytes) for file `string`. The return type is `long`. If an full-sized integer is needed, one may write:
    (let ((sz::llong (file-size <PATH>)))
     ...)

    On error, -1 is returned.
file-uid string | bigloo procedure
file-gid string | bigloo procedure
The functions return the user id (an integer) and group id (an integer) for file `string`. On error, `-1` is returned.
file-mode string | bigloo procedure
Returns the file access mode (an integer). On error `-1` is returned.
file-type string | bigloo procedure
Returns the file type (a symbol). The possible returned values are: `regular` `directory` `link` `block` `fifo` `character` `socket` `resource` `unknown` `does-not-exist`
chmod string [option] | bigloo procedure
Change the access mode of the file named `string`. The `option` must be either a list of the following symbols `read`, `write` and `execute` or an integer. If the operation succeeds, `chmod` returns `#t`. It returns `#f` otherwise. The argument `option` can also be an integer that represents the native file permission. Example:
    (chmod (make-file-name (getenv "HOME") ".bigloorc") 'read 'write)
    (chmod (make-file-name (getenv "HOME") ".bigloorc") #o777)
### 6.9.3 Process support
Bigloo provides access to Unix-like processes as first class objects. The implementation and this documentation are to a great extent copies of the STk [Gallesio95] process support. Basically, a process contains four informations: the standard Unix process identification (aka PID) and the three standard files of the process.
run-process command arg... | bigloo procedure
`run-process` creates a new process and run the executable specified in `command`. The `arg` correspond to the command line arguments. When is process completes its execution, non pipe associated ports are automatically closed. Pipe associated ports have to be explicitly closed by the program. The following values of `p` have a special meaning: `input:` permits to redirect the standard input file of the process. Redirection can come from a file or from a pipe. To redirect the standard input from a file, the name of this file must be specified after `input:`. Use the special keyword `pipe:` to redirect the standard input from a pipe. `output:` permits to redirect the standard output file of the process. Redirection can go to a file or to a pipe. To redirect the standard output to a file, the name of this file must be specified after `output:`. Use the special keyword `pipe:` to redirect the standard output to a pipe. `error:` permits to redirect the standard error file of the process. Redirection can go to a file or to a pipe. To redirect the standard error to a file, the name of this file must be specified after `error:`. Use the special keyword `pipe:` to redirect the standard error to a pipe. `wait:` must be followed by a boolean value. This value specifies if the process must be ran asynchronously or not. By default, the process is run asynchronously (i.e. `wait:` if `#f`). `host:` must be followed by a string. This string represents the name of the machine on which the `command` must be executed. This option uses the external command `rsh`. The shell variable `PATH` must be correctly set for accessing it without specifying its absolute path. `fork:` must be followed by a boolean value. This value specifies if the process must substitute the current execution. That is, if the value is `#t` a new process is spawned otherwise, the current execution is stopped and replaced by the execution of `command`. It defaults to `#t`. `env:` must be followed by a string of the form ``var`=`val``. This will bound an environment variable in the spawned process. A `run-process` command may contain several `env:` arguments. The current variables of the current process are also passed to the new process. The following example launches a process which execute the Unix command `ls` with the arguments `-l` and `/bin`. The lines printed by this command are stored in the file `tmp/X`.
    (run-process "ls" "-l" "/bin" output: "/tmp/X")
The same example with a pipe for output:
    (let* ((proc (run-process "ls" "-l" "/bin" output: pipe:))
           (port (process-output-port proc)))
       (let loop ((line (read-line port)))
          (if (eof-object? line)
              (close-input-port port)
              (begin
                 (print line)
                 (loop (read-line port))))))
One should note that the same program can be written with explicit process handling but making use of the `|` notation for `open-input-file`.
    (let ((port (open-input-file "| ls -l /bin")))
       (let loop ((line (read-line port)))
          (if (eof-object? line)
              (close-input-port port)
              (begin
                 (print line)
                 (loop (read-line port))))))
Both input and output ports can be piped:
    (let* ((proc (run-process "/usr/bin/dc" output: pipe: input: pipe:))
           (inport (process-input-port proc))
           (port (process-output-port proc)))
       (fprint inport "16 o")
       (fprint inport "16 i")
       (fprint inport "10")
       (fprint inport "10")
       (fprint inport "+ p")
       (flush-output-port inport)
       (let loop ((line (read-line port)))
          (if (eof-object? line)
    	  (close-input-port port)
    	  (begin
    	     (print line)
    	     (loop (read-line port))))))   -| 20
Note: The call to `flush-output-port` is mandatory in order to get the `dc` process to get its input characters. Note: Thanks to Todd Dukes for the example and the suggestion of including it this documentation.
process? obj | bigloo procedure
Returns `#t` if `obj` is a process, otherwise returns `#f`.
process-alive? process | bigloo procedure
Returns `#t` if `process` is currently running, otherwise returns `#f`.
close-process-ports command arg... | bigloo procedure
Close the three ports associated with a process. In general the ports should not be closed before the process is terminated.
process-pid process | bigloo procedure
Returns an integer value which represents the Unix identification (PID) of the `process`.
process-input-port process | bigloo procedure
process-output-port process | bigloo procedure
process-error-port process | bigloo procedure
Return the file port associated to the standard input, output and error of `process` otherwise returns `#f`. Note that the returned port is opened for reading when calling `process-output-port` or `process-error-port`. It is opened for writing when calling `process-input-port`.
process-wait process | bigloo procedure
This function stops the current process until `process` completion. This function returns `#f` when `process` is already terminated. It returns `#t` otherwise.
process-exit-status process | bigloo procedure
This function returns the exit status of `process` if it is has finished its execution. It returns `#f` otherwise.
process-send-signal process s | bigloo procedure
Sends the signal whose integer value is `s` to `process`. Value of `s` is system dependent. The result of `process-send-signal` is undefined.
process-kill process | bigloo procedure
This function brutally kills `process`. The result of `process-kill` is undefined.
process-stop process | bigloo procedure
process-continue process | bigloo procedure
Those procedures are only available on systems that support job control. The function `process-stop` stops the execution of `process` and `process-continue` resumes its execution.
process-list | bigloo procedure
This function returns the list of processes which are currently running (i.e. alive).
### 6.9.4 Socket support
Bigloo defines sockets, on systems that support them, as first class objects. Sockets permits processes to communicate even if they are on different machines. Sockets are useful for creating client-server applications. The implementation and this documentation are, to a great extent copies of the STk [Gallesio95] socket support. Bigloo supports both "stream-oriented" sockets and "datagram" sockets (see info-file ` libc', The GNU C Library Reference Manual). Stream-oriented sockets are created and manipulated with the following procedures.
make-client-socket hostname port-number #!key (timeout 0) (inbuf #t) (outbuf #t) (domain 'inet) | bigloo procedure
`make-client-socket` returns a new socket object. This socket establishes a link between the running application listening on port `port-number` of `hostname`. If keyword arguments `inbuf` and `outbuf` describe the buffer to be used. Each can either be: A positive fixnum, this gives the size of the buffer. The boolean `#t`, a buffer is allocated by the Bigloo runtime system with a default size. The boolean `#f`, the socket is unbufferized. A string, it is used as buffer. Unbuffered sockets are useful for socket clients connected to servers that do not emit #\Newline character after emissions. If the optional argument `timeout` is missing or is `0`, the execution blocks until the connection is established. If the `timeout` is provided, the execution unblocks after `timeout` microseconds unless the connection is established. The `domain` argument specifies the protocol used by the socket. The supported domains are: `inet`: IPv4 Internet protocols. `inet6`: IPv6 Internet protocols. `unix`: Unix sockets for local inter-process communications. `local`: Same as `unix`. `unspec`: uses IPv4 or IPv6 as determined by getaddrinfo. If the connection cannot be established, an `&io-error` is raised (see Errors Assertions and Traces). When a socket is used in unbufferized mode the characters available on the input port must be read exclusively with `read-char` or `read-line`. It is forbidden to use `read` or any regular grammar. This limitation is imposed by Rgc (see Regular Parsing) that intrinsicly associates buffers with regular grammars. If the current Rgc implementation is improved on the coming version this restriction will be eliminated. Example:
    ;; open a client socket on port 80:
    (make-client-socket "www.inria.fr" 80)
    ;; open an unbufferized connection
    (make-client-socket "www.inria.fr" 80 :inbuf #f :outbuf #f)
socket? obj | bigloo procedure
socket-server? obj | bigloo procedure
socket-client? obj | bigloo procedure
Returns `#t` if `obj` is a socket, a socket server a socket client. Otherwise returns `#f`. Socket servers and socket clients are sockets.
socket-hostname socket | bigloo procedure
Returns a string which contains the name of the distant host attached to `socket`. If `socket` has been created with `make-client-socket` this procedure returns the official name of the distant machine used for connection. If `socket` has been created with `make-server-socket`, this function returns the official name of the client connected to the socket. If no client has used yet the socket, this function returns `#f`.
socket-host-address socket | bigloo procedure
Returns a string which contains the IP number of the distant host attached to `socket`. If `socket` has been created with `make-client-socket` this procedure returns the IP number of the distant machine used for connection. If `socket` has been created with `make-server-socket`, this function returns the address of the client connected to the socket. If no client has used yet the socket, this function returns `#f`.
socket-local-address socket | bigloo procedure
Returns a string which contains the IP number of the local host attached to `socket`.
socket-port-number socket | bigloo procedure
Returns the integer number of the port used for `socket`.
socket-input socket | bigloo procedure
socket-output socket | bigloo procedure
Returns the file port associated for reading or writing with the program connected with `socket`. If no connection has already been established, these functions return `#f`. The following example shows how to make a client socket. Here we create a socket on port 13 of the machine ```kaolin.unice.fr`''1:
    (let ((s (make-client-socket "kaolin.unice.fr" 13)))
      (print "Time is: " (read-line (socket-input s)))
      (socket-shutdown  s))
make-server-socket #!optional (port 0) #!key (name #f) (backlog 5) (domain 'inet) | bigloo procedure
`make-server-socket` returns a new socket object. The socket will be listening on the network interface `name`, either on the specified `port`, or on a port chosen by the system (usually the first port available on the network interface). The `name` can be an IP number as a string, or a host name, whose first IP address will be used (as returned by the name server lookup). The `backlog` argument specifies the size of the wait-queue used for accepting connections. The `domain` argument specifies the address family to use. The supported domains are: `inet`: IPv4 Internet protocols. `inet6`: IPv6 Internet protocols. `unix`: Unix sockets for local inter-process communications. `local`: Same as `unix`.
socket-accept socket #!key (errp #t) (inbuf #t) (outbuf #t) | bigloo procedure
`socket-accept` waits for a client connection on the given `socket`. It returns a `client-socket`. If no client is already waiting for a connection, this procedure blocks its caller; otherwise, the first connection request on the queue of pending connections is connected to `socket`. This procedure must be called on a server socket created with `make-server-socket`. The arguments `inbuf` and `outbuf` are similar to the ones used by `make-client-socket`. That is, each can either be: A positive fixnum, this gives the size of the buffer. The boolean `#t`, a buffer is allocated. The boolean `#f`, the socket is unbufferized. A string, it is used as buffer. The keyword argument `errp` is a boolean. The value `#t` means that if an error is raised it is signaled. Otherwise, it is omitted. Note: When a socket is used in unbufferized mode the characters available on the input port must be read exclusively with `read-char` or `read-line`. It is forbidden to use `read` or any regular grammar. This limitation is imposed by Rgc (see Regular Parsing) that intrinsicly associate buffers with regular grammars. If the current Rgc implementation is improved on the coming version this restriction will be suppressed. The following exemple is a simple server which waits for a connection on the port 12342. Once the connection with the distant program is established, we read a line on the input port associated to the socket and we write the length of this line on its output port.
    (let* ((s (make-server-socket 1234))
           (s2 (socket-accept s)))
      (let ((l (read-line (socket-input s2))))
        (fprint (socket-output s2) "Length is: " (string-length l))
        (flush-output-port (socket-output s2)))
      (socket-close s2)
      (socket-shutdown s))
socket-close socket | bigloo procedure
The function `socket-close` closes the connection established with a `socket-client`.
socket-shutdown socket #!optional (how #t) | bigloo procedure
`Socket-shutdown` shutdowns the connection associated to `socket`. `Close` is either a boolean or one of the symbols `RDWR`, `RD`, or `WR`. The meaning of the optional how (which defaults to `#t`) is as follows: `#t`, the socket is shutdown for reading and writing and the socket is closed. `#f`, the socket is shutdown for reading and writing. `RDWR`, the socket is shutdown for reading and writing. `RD`, the socket is shutdown for reading. `WD`, the socket is shutdown for writing. The function `socket-shutdown` returns an integer which is `0` is the operation has succeeded and a positive integer otherwise.
socket-down? socket | bigloo procedure
Returns `#t` if `socket` has been previously closed with `socket-shutdown`. It returns `#f` otherwise.
Here is another example of making use of stream sockets:
    (define s1 (make-server-socket))
    (define s2 #unspecified)

    (dynamic-wind
       ;; Init: Launch an xterm with telnet running
       ;; on the s listening port and connect
       (lambda ()
          (run-process "/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm" "-display" ":0" "-e" "telnet" "localhost"
    		   (number->string (socket-port-number s1)))
          (set! s2 (socket-accept s1))
          (display #"\nWelcome on the socket REPL.\n\n> " (socket-output s2))
          (flush-output-port (socket-output s2)))

       ;; Action: A toplevel like loop
       (lambda ()
          (let loop ()
    	 (let ((obj (eval (read (socket-input s2)))))
    	    (fprint (socket-output s2) "; Result: " obj)
    	    (display "> " (socket-output s2))
    	    (flush-output-port (socket-output s2))
    	    (loop))))

       ;; Termination: We go here when
       ;;     -a: an error occurs
       ;;     -b: connection is closed
       (lambda ()
          (print #"Shutdown ......\n")
          (socket-close s2)
          (socket-shutdown s1)))
Here is a second example that uses sockets. It implements a client-server architecture and it uses unbufferized (see `socket-accept`) input ports. First, here is the code of the client:
    (module client)

    (let* ((s (make-client-socket "localhost" 8080 :outbuf #f))
           (p (socket-output s)))
       (display "string" p)
       (newline p)
       (display "abc" p)
       (flush-output-port p)
       (let loop ()
          (loop)))
Then, here is the code of the server:
    (module server)

    (let* ((s (make-server-socket 8080))
           (s2 (socket-accept s :inbuf #f)))
       (let ((pin (socket-input s2)))
          (let loop ()
             (display (read-char pin))
             (flush-output-port (current-output-port))
             (loop))))
At, to conclude here the source code for a server waiting for multiple consecutive connections:
    (define (main argv)
       (let ((n (if (pair? (cdr argv))
                    (string->integer (cadr argv))
                    10))
    	 (s (make-server-socket)))
          (print "s: " s)
          (let loop ((i 0))
             (if (<fx i n)
                 (let ((s2 (socket-accept s)))
    		(print "i: " i " " s2)
    		(print (read-line (socket-input s2)))
    		(socket-close s2)
                    (loop (+fx i 1)))
    	     (socket-shutdown s)))))
Bigloo also provides primitives dealing with "datagram" sockets, for use with transports such as UDP. These are shown below:
make-datagram-client-socket hostname port #!optional broadcast (domain 'inet) | bigloo procedure
return a datagram client socket connected to `hostname` on `port` whose address family is specified by `domain`. The supported domains are: `inet`: IPv4 Internet protocols. `inet6`: IPv6 Internet protocols.
make-datagram-server-socket #!optional (port 0) (domain 'inet) | bigloo procedure
Return a datagram server socket listening on `port`, and whose address family is specified by `domain`. The supported domains are: `inet`: IPv4 Internet protocols. `inet6`: IPv6 Internet protocols.
make-datagram-unbound-socket [(domain 'inet)] | bigloo procedure
Return an unbound datagram socket,whose address family is specified by `domain`. The supported domains are: `inet`: IPv4 Internet protocols. `inet6`: IPv6 Internet protocols. It may then be used in conjunction with `datagram-socket-send` and `datagram-socket-receive`, for instance send to and receive from a UDP multicast address.
datagram-socket-input socket | bigloo procedure
datagram-socket-output socket | bigloo procedure
Returns the file port associated for reading or writing with the program connected with datagram `socket`. If no connection has already been established, these functions return `#f`.
datagram-socket-receive sock size | bigloo procedure
Receive up to `size` bytes from datagram socket `sock`, and return them as a string.
datagram-socket-send sock message host port | bigloo procedure
Send string `message` over datagram socket `sock` to `host` and `port`. `host` must be a string denoting an IPv4 or IPv6 address. On success, return the number of bytes actually sent.
host hostname | bigloo procedure
hostinfo hostname | bigloo procedure
Returns the IP number of `hostname`. When `hostname` is not found, the `io-unknown-host-error` exception is raided (see Errors Assertions and Traces). The function `hostinfo` possibly returns more information about the host. It returns an association list made out the information about the host. This list might contain a `name` entry, an `addresses` entry, and a `aliases` entry. Some back-ends (e.g., the C back-end) implements DNS caching. This may dramatically improve the performance of intensive networking applications. DNS caching can be control by the means of two parameters: `bigloo-dns-enable-cache` and `bigloo-dns-cache-validity-timeout` (see Parameters).
get-interfaces | bigloo procedure
Returns the list of configured interfaces, their associated IP addresses, their protocol, and, if supported by the system, the hardware address (the mac address).
get-protocols | bigloo procedure
Reads all the entries from the protocols database and returns a list of protocol entries. Each entries consists in a list of three elements: a string denoting the protocol name, an integer denoting the protocol number, a list of strings denoting the protocol aliases.
get-protocol number-or-name | bigloo procedure
Returns the protocol entry found in the protocols database. The argument `number-of-name` is either an integer or a string.
socket-option socket option-name | bigloo procedure
socket-option-set! socket option-name val | bigloo procedure
These two functions get and set socket option. The argument `option-name` must be a keyword. If the `option-name` is not supported by the Bigloo runtime system, the function `socket-option` returns the value `#unspecified` otherwise, it returns the option value. If the `option-name` is not supported, the function `socket-option-set!` returns `false`. Otherwise it returns a non false value. Here is a list of possibly supported option-name values: `:SO_KEEPALIVE` `:SO_OOBINLINE` `:SO_RCVBUF` `:SO_SNDBUF` `:SO_REUSEADDR` `:SO_TIMEOUT` `:SO_SNDTIMEO` `:SO_RCVTIMEO` `:TCP_CORK` `:TCP_QUICKACK` `:TCP_NODELAY` The `:SO_KEEPALIVE` option can be use to implement automatic notification of client disconnection. It requires system tuning for enabling TCP keeplive support. On Linux additional information may be found on the ``TCP Keepalive HOWTO'' (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/TCP-Keepalive-HOWTO/).
### 6.9.5 SSL
Bigloo allows access to SSL sockets, certificates and private keys, in order to build secure encrypted and/or signed communications.
ssl-version | SSL library procedure
Returns a string representing the SSL library version number.
#### 6.9.5.1 SSL Sockets Bigloo defines SSL sockets, on systems that support them, as first class objects. SSL Sockets permits processes to communicate even if they are on different machines securely via encrypted connections. SSL Sockets are useful for creating secure client-server applications.
ssl-socket? obj | SSL library procedure
Returns `#t` if an only if obj is a SSL socket (either client or server). Returns `#f` otherwise.
make-ssl-client-socket hostname port-number #!key (buffer #t) (timeout 0) (protocol 'sslv23) (cert #f) (pkey #f) (CAs '()) (accepted-certs #f) (domain 'inet) | SSL library procedure
`make-ssl-client-socket` returns a new client socket object. This object satisfies the `socket?` predicate (see Socket) can be used in any context where a socket created by `make-client-socket` can be used. A SSL client socket establishes a link between the running application (client) and a remote application (server) listening on port `port-number` of `hostname`. If optional argument `bufsiz` is lesser or equal to `1` then the input port associated with the socket is unbuffered. This is useful for socket clients connected to servers that do not emit #\Newline character after emissions. The optional argument `buffer` can either be: A positive fixnum, this gives the size of the buffer. The boolean `#t`, a buffer is allocated. The boolean `#f`, the socket is unbufferized. A string, it is used as buffer. If the optional argument `timeout` is `0`, the execution blocks until the connection is established. If the `timeout` is provided, the execution unblocks after `timeout` microseconds unless the connection is established. If the `protocol` option argument is given, it specifies the encryption protocol. Accepted values are `'sslv2`, `'sslv3`, `'sslv23` (alias `'ssl`), `'tlsv1` (alias `'tls`), `'tlsv1_1`, `'tlsv1_2`, `'tlsv1_3`, or `'dtlsv1` (alias `'dtls`). The default value is `'sslv23`. The SSL socket will sign the connection using the optional arguments `cert` (for the certificate) and `pkey` (for the private key). The certificate `cert` must be of type `certificate`, and the private key `pkey` must be of type `private-key`. If any of those two arguments is given, they must both be given. If those optional arguments are missing the connection will be encrypted but not signed from the client side. The `CAs` optional argument specifies the list of certificates to trust as CA (Certificate Authority) for the connection. It must be a list of values of type `certificate`. If the list is empty, the default list of trusted CA is used (set by the system). Note that giving a list of trusted certificates turns on the peer (server) certificate validation: an `&io-error` will be raised if the peer (server) certificate is not signed directly or indirectly by one of the certificates in `CAs`. The `accepted-certs` optional argument gives a list of certificate objects (of type `certificate`) which are accepted as peer (server) certificate. If `accepted-certs` is `#f` then every peer (server) certificate is accepted (aside from eventual certificate validation). If `accepted-certs` is a list, the peer (server) certificate must match one of the given certificates. Otherwise, an `&io-error` will be raised. The optional `domain` argument specifies the protocol used by the socket. The supported domains are: `inet`: IPv4 Internet protocols. `inet6`: IPv6 Internet protocols. `unspec`: uses IPv4 or IPv6 as determined by getaddrinfo. If the connection cannot be established, an `&io-error` is raised (see Errors Assertions and Traces). When a socket is used in unbufferized mode the characters available on the input port must be read exclusively with `read-char` or `read-line`. It is forbidden to use `read` or any regular grammar. This limitation is imposed by Rgc (see Regular Parsing) that intrinsicly associates buffers with regular grammars. If the current Rgc implementation is improved on the coming version this restriction will be eliminated. The function `make-ssl-client-socket` is defined in the SSL library. A module that needs this facility must then use a `library` clause (see Modules). The SSL library can also be loaded from the interpreter using the `library-load` function (see Bigloo Libraries).
    (module imap
       (library ssl)
       (main main))

    (let* ((s (make-ssl-client-socket "localhost" 993))
           (p (socket-output s)))
       (display "string" p)
       (newline p)
       (display "abc" p)
       (flush-output-port p)
       (let loop ()
          (loop)))
client-socket-use-ssl! socket #!key (protocol 'sslv23) (cert #f) (pkey #f) (CAs '()) (accepted-certs #f) | SSL library procedure
Returns an SSL socket built from a socket obtained by `make-client-socket` (see Socket). Depending on the implementation and back-end the returned socket may or may not be `eq?` to `socket`.
make-ssl-server-socket #!key (port 0) (name #f) (protocol 'sslv23) (cert #f) (pkey #f) (CAs '()) (accepted-certs #f) (domain 'inet) | SSL library procedure
`make-ssl-server-socket` returns a new server socket object which satisfies the `socket?` predicate and which can be used in any context where a socket created by `make-server-socket` can be used (see Socket). A SSL server socket opens the port `port` on the current host `name` (the server), and allows remote applications (clients) to connect to it. listening on port `port-number` of `hostname`. If the optional argument `port` is not given or is `0`, the server socket will use the first availailable port number. If the optional argument `name` is given, the server socket will be bound to the network interface representing the given host name. If it is `#f` (the default) the socket will be bound on every local network interface. If the `protocol` option argument is given, it specifies the encryption protocol. Accepted values are `'sslv2`, `'sslv3`, `'sslv23` (alias `'ssl`), `'tlsv1` (alias `'tls`), `'tlsv1_1`, `'tlsv1_2` `'tlsv1_3`, or `'dtlsv1` (alias `'dtls`). The default value is `'sslv23`. The SSL socket will sign the connection using the optional arguments `cert` (for the certificate) and `pkey` (for the private key). The certificate `cert` must be of type `certificate`, and the private key `pkey` must be of type `private-key`. If any of those two arguments is given, they must both be given. If those optional arguments are missing the connection will be encrypted but not signed from the server side, which means the peer (client) will have to provide a certificate/private key pair to encrypt the connection, and that seldom happens. Typical SSL servers provide their certificate and private key. Note that since the peer (client) certificate is only known when we are accepting a client socket (with `socket-accept`) the `CAs` and `accepted-certs` optional arguments are only checked during the accept operation of a server socket. The `CAs` optional argument specifies the list of certificates to trust as CA (Certificate Authority) for the connection. It must be a list of values of type `certificate`. If the list is empty, the default list of trusted CA is used (set by the system). Note that giving a list of trusted certificates turns on the peer (client) certificate validation: an `&io-error` will be raised if the peer (client) certificate is not signed directly or indirectly by one of the certificates in `CAs` when accepting the client socket. The `accepted-certs` optional argument gives a list of certificate objects (of type `certificate`) which are accepted as peer (client) certificate. If `accepted-certs` is `#f` then every peer (client) certificate is accepted (aside from eventual certificate validation). If `accepted-certs` is a list, the peer (client) certificate must match one of the given certificates. Otherwise, an `&io-error` will be raised when accepting the client socket. The optional `domain` argument specifies the protocol used by the socket. The supported domains are: `inet`: IPv4 Internet protocols. `inet6`: IPv6 Internet protocols. If the connection cannot be established, an `&io-error` is raised (see Errors Assertions and Traces). The function `make-ssl-server-socket` is defined in the SSL library. A module that needs this facility must then use a `library` clause (see Modules). The SSL library can also be loaded from the interpreter using the `library-load` function (see Bigloo Libraries).
    (module secure-echo
       (library ssl))

    (let* ((cert (read-certificate "/etc/ssl/my_cert.crt"))
           (pkey (read-private-key "/etc/ssl/my_key.pkey"))
           (cas (read-pem-file "/etc/ssl/ca.cert"))
           (s (make-ssl-server-socket 1055 :CAs cas :cert cert :pkey pkey))
           (cs (socket-accept s))
           (ip (socket-input cs))
           (op (socket-output cs)))
       (let loop ((e (read ip)))
          (when (not (eof-object? e))
             (write e op)
             (loop (read ip))))
       (socket-close s))
#### 6.9.5.2 Certificates Certificates are instances of the `certificate` class. There type can be checked with `(isa? expr certificate)`.
read-certificate file | SSL library procedure
Reads an X509 certificate stored in PEM format in the given `file` name. If the file cannot be read, it raises an `&io-error` condition. Otherwise the certificate is returned.
read-pem-file file | SSL library procedure
Reads a list of X509 certificate stored in PEM format in the given `file` name. If the file cannot be read, it raises an `&io-error` condition. Otherwise the list of certificate contained in the file is returned.
certificate-subject cert | SSL library procedure
Returns the CommonName (CN) part of the subject of the given certificate.
certificate-issuer cert | SSL library procedure
Returns the CommonName (CN) part of the issuer of the given certificate.
#### 6.9.5.3 Private Keys Private keys are instances of the `private-key` class. There type can be checked with `(isa? expr private-key)`.
read-private-key file | SSL library procedure
Reads a private key stored in PEM format in the given `file` name. If the file cannot be read, it raises an `&io-error` condition. Otherwise the private key is returned.
### 6.10 Date
date? obj | bigloo procedure
Returns `#t` if and only if `obj` is a date as returned by `make-date`, `current-date`, `seconds->date`, or `seconds->gmtdate`. It returns `#f` otherwise.
make-date #!key (nsec 0) (sec 0) (min 0) (hour 0) (day 1) (month 1) (year 1970) timezone (dst -1) | bigloo procedure
Creates a `date` object from the integer values passed as argument. The argument `timezone`, if provided, is expressed in minute. Example:
    (write (make-date :sec 0 :min 22 :hour 17 :day 5 :month 2 :year 2003 :dst 0))
      -| #<date:Wed Feb  5 17:22:00 2003>
The argument `dst` is either `-1` when the information is not available, `0` when daylight saving is disabled, `1` when daylight saving is enabled.
date-copy date #!key sec min hour day month year timezone isdst | bigloo procedure
date-update! date #!key sec min hour day month year | bigloo procedure
Creates a new date or update an existing from the argument `date`. Example:
    (date-copy (current-date) :sec 32 :min 24 :day 5)
date->gmtdate! date | bigloo procedure
Update the date to switch to an UTC representation. Returns the modified date object.
current-date | bigloo procedure
Returns a `date` object representing the current date.
current-seconds | bigloo procedure
current-microseconds | bigloo procedure
current-milliseconds | bigloo procedure
current-nanoseconds | bigloo procedure
Returns an `elong` integer representing the current epoch (i.e., the date since 0:00:00 UTC on the morning of 1 January 1970, expressed in seconds (resp. in micro seconds).
date->seconds | bigloo procedure
date->nanoseconds | bigloo procedure
date->milliseconds | bigloo procedure
seconds->date | bigloo procedure
seconds->gmtdate | bigloo procedure - 4.3h
milliseconds->gmtdate | bigloo procedure - 4.3i
nanoeconds->date | bigloo procedure
milliseconds->date | bigloo procedure
Convert from `date` and `elong`.
date->string date | bigloo procedure
date->utc-string date | bigloo procedure
seconds->string elong | bigloo procedure
seconds->utc-string elong | bigloo procedure
Construct a textual representation of the date passed in argument
date-second date | bigloo procedure
Returns the number of seconds of a date, in the range `0...59`.
date-nanosecond date | bigloo procedure
date-millisecond date | bigloo procedure
Returns the number of nano/milli seconds of a date (to be added to `date-second`).
date-minute date | bigloo procedure
Returns the minute of a date, in the range `0...59`.
date-hour date | bigloo procedure
Returns the hour of a date, in the range `0...23`.
date-day date | bigloo procedure
Returns the day of a date, in the range `1...31`.
date-wday date | bigloo procedure
date-week-day date | bigloo procedure
Returns the week day of a date, in the range `1...7`.
date-yday date | bigloo procedure
date-year-day date | bigloo procedure
Returns the year day of a date, in the range `1...366`.
date-month date | bigloo procedure
Returns the month of a date, in the range `1...12`.
date-year date | bigloo procedure
Returns the year of a date.
date-timezone date | bigloo procedure
Returns the timezone (in seconds) of a date.
date-is-dst date | bigloo procedure
Returns `-1` if the information is not available, `0` is the date does not contain daylight saving adjustment, `1` if it contains a daylight saving adjustment.
integer->second | bigloo procedure
Converts a Bigloo fixnum integer into a second number.
day-seconds | bigloo procedure
Returns the number of seconds contained in one day.
day-name int | bigloo procedure
day-aname int | bigloo procedure
Return the name and the abbreviated name of a week day.
month-name int | bigloo procedure
month-aname int | bigloo procedure
Return the name and the abbreviated name of a month.
date-month-length date | bigloo procedure
Return the length of the month of `date`.
leap-year? int | bigloo procedure
Returns `#t` if and only if the year `int` is a leap year. Returns `#f` otherwise.
rfc2822-date->date string | bigloo procedure
rfc2822-parse-date input-port | bigloo procedure
Parses RFC2822 string representing a date. These functions produce a Bigloo date object.
date->rfc2822-date date | bigloo procedure
Converts a Bigloo date into a string representation compliant with the RFC2822 format.
iso8601-date->date string | bigloo procedure
iso8601-parse-date input-port | bigloo procedure
Parses ISO8601 string representing a date. These functions produce a Bigloo date object.
date->iso8601-date date | bigloo procedure
Converts a Bigloo date into a string representation compliant with the iso8601 format.
### 6.11 Digest
base64-encode string [padding 64] | bigloo procedure
base64-decode string [no-eof-padding] | bigloo procedure
Encodes (respec. decodes) a string into a base64 representation. When decoding, if the optional parameter `no-eof-padding` is `#t`, the decoding success even if the input stream is not padded with `=` characters.
base64-encode-port input-port output-port [padding 64] | bigloo procedure
base64-decode-port input-port output-port [no-eof-padding] | bigloo procedure
Encodes (respec. decodes) an input port into a base64 representation. When decode succeeds, `base64-decode-port` returns `#t`, it returns `#f` otherwise. When decoding, if the optional parameter `no-eof-padding` is `#t`, the decoding success even if the input stream is not padded with `=` characters.
pem-read-file file-name | bigloo procedure
pem-decode-port input-port output-port | bigloo procedure
Reads a PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) base64 encoded file.
md5sum obj | bigloo procedure
md5sum-string string | bigloo procedure
md5sum-mmap mmap | bigloo procedure
md5sum-file string | bigloo procedure
md5sum-port input-port | bigloo procedure
Computes MD5 message digest. The function `md5sum` dispatches over its argument and invokes the ad-hoc function. That is, it invokes `md5sum-string` if its argument is a string, `md5sum-mmap` if it is a mmap, `md5sum-port` if its argument is an input port.
hmac-md5sum-string key string | bigloo procedure
Computes the Hmac MD5 authentication:
    (hmac-md5sum-string (make-string 16 #a011) "Hi There")
      => "9294727a3638bb1c13f48ef8158bfc9d"
cram-md5sum-string user key string | bigloo procedure
Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism as specified in RFC 2195. The function `cram-md5sum-string` assumes that data is base64 encoded. The result is also base64 encoded.
sha1sum obj | bigloo procedure
sha1sum-string string | bigloo procedure
sha1sum-mmap mmap | bigloo procedure
sha1sum-file string | bigloo procedure
sha1sum-port input-port | bigloo procedure
Computes SHA1 message digest. The function `sha1sum` dispatches over its argument and invokes the ad-hoc function. That is, it invokes `sha1sum-string` if its argument is a string, `sha1sum-mmap` if it is a mmap, `sha1sum-port` if its argument is an input port.
hmac-sha1sum-string key string | bigloo procedure
Computes the Hmac SHA1 authentication:
sha256sum obj | bigloo procedure
sha256sum-string string | bigloo procedure
sha256sum-mmap mmap | bigloo procedure
sha256sum-file string | bigloo procedure
sha256sum-port input-port | bigloo procedure
sha512sum obj | bigloo procedure
sha512sum-string string | bigloo procedure
sha512sum-mmap mmap | bigloo procedure
sha512sum-file string | bigloo procedure
sha512sum-port input-port | bigloo procedure
Computes SHA256 and SHA512 message digest. The function `sha256sum` (respec. `sha512sum`) dispatches over its argument and invokes the ad-hoc function. That is, it invokes `sha256sum-string` if its argument is a string, `sha256sum-mmap` if it is a mmap, `sha256sum-port` if its argument is an input port.
hmac-sha256sum-string key string | bigloo procedure
hmac-sha512sum-string key string | bigloo procedure
Computes the Hmac SHA256 and SHA512 authentication.
### 6.12 Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)
Bigloo provides several known cyclic redundancy checks as well as means to create custom checks. Usually CRCs are executed starting with the leftmost bit inside a byte (big endian). However, especially for serial-port transmissions, a scheme where the least-significant bit is processed first is desirable. Bigloo's CRC procedures accept a key-parameter (`:big-endian`) (by default `#t`) which allows to change this behavior. The following CRCs (given with the associated polynomial) are provided: `itu-4`: 0x3 `epc-5`: 0x9 `itu-5`: 0x15 `usb-5`: 0x5 `itu-6`: 0x3 `7`: 0x9 `atm-8`: 0x7 `ccitt-8`: 0x8d `dallas/maxim-8`: 0x31 `8`: 0xd5 `sae-j1850-8`: 0x1d `10`: 0x233 `11`: 0x385 `12`: 0x80f `can-15`: 0x4599 `ccitt-16`: 0x1021 `dnp-16`: 0x3d65 `ibm-16`: 0x8005 `24`: 0x5d6dcb `radix-64-24`: 0x864cfb `30`: 0x2030b9cf `ieee-32`: 0x4c11db7 `c-32`: 0x1edc6f41 `k-32`: 0x741b8cd7 `q-32`: 0x814141ab `iso-64`: 0x1b `ecma-182-64`: 0x42f0e1eba9ea3693
crc-names | bigloo procedure
Returns a list of all provided CRCs (`itu-4`, `epc-5`, etc.).
crc-polynomial name | bigloo procedure
crc-polynomial-le name | bigloo procedure
Returns the polynomial for the given name. The `-le` variant returns the little endian polynomial.
    (crc-polynomial 'ieee-32)
        -| #e79764439 ;; == #ex4c11bd7
    (crc-polynomial 24)
        -| 6122955    ;; == #x5d6dcb
crc-length name | bigloo procedure
Returns the length of the specified CRC.
crc name obj [:init 0] [:final-xor 0] [:big-endian? #t] | bigloo procedure
crc-string name str::bstring [:init 0] [:final-xor 0] [:big-endian? #t] | bigloo procedure
crc-port name p::input-port [:init 0] [:final-xor 0] [:big-endian? #t] | bigloo procedure
crc-mmap name m::mmap [init 0] [:final-xor 0] [big-endian? #t] | bigloo procedure
crc-file name f::bstring [init 0] [:final-xor 0] [big-endian? #t] | bigloo procedure
Computes the CRC of the given object. `name` must be one of the provided CRC-algorithms. The optional parameter `init` can be used to initialize the CRC. The result of the CRC will be XORed with `final-xor`. The result will however be of the CRC's length. That is, even if `final-xor` is bigger then the CRC's length only the relevant bits will be used to perform the final XOR. The result will be a number. Depending on the CRC this number can be a fixnum, an elong, or an llong. The following example mimicks the UNIX `cksum` command:
    (module cksum (main main))
    (define (main args)
      (let loop ((sum (crc-file 'ieee-32 (cadr args)))
                 (size (elong->fixnum (file-size (cadr args)))))
        (if (=fx size 0)
            (printf "~a ~a ~a\n"
                    (bit-andllong #lxFFFFFFFF (elong->llong (bit-notelong sum)))
                    (file-size (cadr args))
                    (cadr args))
            (loop (crc-string 'ieee-32
                              (string (integer->char-ur (bit-and size #xFF)))
                              :init sum)
    	      (bit-rsh size 8)))))
In the following example we implement OpenPGP's CRC-24:
    (define (openpgp-crc-24 str)
      (crc-string 'radix-64-24 str :init #xB704CE))
Be aware that many common CRCs use -1 as init value and invert the result. For compatibility with other implementations you might want to try one of the following alternatives:
    (define (alt1 name obj) (crc name obj :init -1))
    (define (alt2 name obj) (crc name obj :final-xor -1))
    (define (alt3 name obj) (crc name obj :init -1 :final-xor -1))
Bigloo provides means to create additional CRCs: one can either simply provide a new polynomial or use Bigloo's low level functions.
register-crc! name poly len | bigloo procedure
Adds the given CRC to Bigloo's list. Name can be of any type (`crc` will use `assoc` to find it in its list). The polynomial can be either a fixnum, an elong or an llong. `len` should give the CRCs size. The type of the polynomial and the given `len` must be consistent. On a 32 bit machine the following CRC registration would be invalid and yield undefined results:
    (register-crc! 'invalid 1337 55)
As 55 is bigger than the fixnum's bit-size calling `crc` with this CRC will yield undefinde results.
crc-long::long c::char crc::long poly::long len::long | bigloo procedure
crc-elong::elong c::char crc::elong poly::elong len::long | bigloo procedure
crc-llong::llong c::char crc::llong poly::llong len::long | bigloo procedure
crc-long-le::long c::char crc::long poly::long len::long | bigloo procedure
crc-elong-le::elong c::char crc::elong poly::elong len::long | bigloo procedure
crc-llong-le::llong c::char crc::llong poly::llong len::long | bigloo procedure
These function perform a CRC operation on one byte. The previously described functions are based on these low level functions. The result of all the low level functions will return values that are not cut to the correct length. Usually a crc is done in a loop, and one needs to `bit-and` only when returning the result. Polynomials can be given with or without the high-order bit. For instance we could implement `openpgp-crc24` as follows:
    (define *openpgp-init* #xB704CE)
    (define *radix-64-24-poly* #x864CFB)
    (define (openpgp-crc-24 str)
      (let loop ((i 0)
                 (crc *openpgp-init*))
        (if (=fx i (string-length str))
            (bit-and crc #xFFFFFF) ;; cut to correct length (24 bits)
            (loop (+fx i 1)
                  (crc-long (string-ref str i) crc *radix-64-24-poly* 24)))))
crc-polynomial-be->le len polynomial | bigloo procedure
Returns the little endian variant of a given polynomial.
### 6.13 Internet
This section presents the Bigloo function aimed at helping internet programming.
### 6.14 URLs
url-parse url | bigloo procedure
The argument `url` can either be a string or an input-port. The function `url-parse` parses the url and returns four values: the protocol, the optional user info, the host name, the port number, the absolute path Example
    (multiple-value-bind (protocol uinfo host port abspath)
       (url-parse "http://www.inria.fr/sophia/teams/indes/index.html")
       (list protocol uinfo host port abspath))
          => ("http" #f "www.inria.fr" 80 "/sophia/teams/indes/index.html'')
    (multiple-value-bind (protocol uinfo host port abspath)
       (url-parse "https://foo:bar@www.inria.fr/sophia/teams/indes/index.html")
       (list protocol uinfo))
          => ("https" "foo@bar")
url-sans-protocol-parse url protocol | bigloo procedure
The argument `url` can either be a string or an input-port. This function behaves as `url-parse` except it assumes that the protocol part of the url has already been extracted from the URI. It is explicitly provided using the `protocol` argument.
http-url-parse url | bigloo procedure
The argument `url` can either be a string or an input-port. As `url-parse`, it returns four values. This function parses URL found in HTTP GET responses.
url-path-encode path | bigloo procedure
Encode a path that can be used in valid URL.
    (url-path-encode "/tmp/foo") => "/tmp/foo"
    (url-path-encode "/tmp/foo&bar") => "/tmp/foo%26bar"
    (url-path-encode "http:///tmp/foo") => "http%3A//tmp/foo"
url-encode url | bigloo procedure
uri-encode url | bigloo procedure
uri-encode-component url | bigloo procedure
Encode a URL by removing any illegal character.
    (url-encode "http:///tmp/foo") => "http://tmp:80/foo"
    (url-encode "http:///tmp/foo&bar") => "http://tmp:80/foo%26"
url-decode url | bigloo procedure
url-decode! url | bigloo procedure
uri-decode url | bigloo procedure
uri-decode! url | bigloo procedure
uri-decode-component url | bigloo procedure
uri-decode-component! url | bigloo procedure
Decode a URL. The function `url-decode!` may return its argument unmodified if no decoding is for the URL. The variants `-component` treat do not escape URI reserved characters (i.e., #, /, ?, :, @, &, =, +, and $).
### 6.15 HTTP
http [:in #f] [:out #f] [:socket #f] | bigloo procedure
[:protocol 'http] [:method 'get] [:timeout 0] [:proxy #f] [:host "localhost"] [:port 80] [:path "/"] [:login #f] [:authorization #f] [:username #f] [:password #f] [:http-version "HTTP/1.1"] [:content-type #f] [:connection "close"] [:header '((user-agent: "Mozilla/5.0"))] [:args '()] [:body #f] Opens an HTTP connection. Returns a socket. It is an error to specify a header twice. In particular, it is illegal to re-define keyword-ed arguments in the `:header` list. For instance, it is illegal to include in the `:header` actual list value a value for the `Connection` HTTP connection.
    (define (wget url)

       (define (parser ip status-code header clen tenc)
          (if (not (and (>=fx status-code 200) (<=fx status-code 299)))
    	  (case status-code
    	     ((401)
    	      (raise (instantiate::&io-port-error
    			(proc 'open-input-file)
    			(msg "Cannot open URL, authentication required")
    			(obj url))))
    	     ((404)
    	      (raise (instantiate::&io-file-not-found-error
    			(proc 'open-input-file)
    			(msg "Cannot open URL")
    			(obj url))))
    	     (else
    	      (raise (instantiate::&io-port-error
    			(proc 'open-input-file)
    			(msg (format "Cannot open URL (~a)" status-code))
    			(obj url)))))
    	  (cond
    	     ((not (input-port? ip))
    	      (open-input-string ""))
    	     (clen
    	      (input-port-fill-barrier-set! ip (elong->fixnum clen))
    	      ip)
    	     (else
    	      ip))))

       (multiple-value-bind (protocol login host port abspath)
          (url-parse url)
          (let* ((sock (http :host host :port port :login login :path abspath))
    	     (ip (socket-input sock))
    	     (op (socket-output sock)))
    	 (with-handler
    	    (lambda (e)
    	       (if (isa? e &http-redirection)
                       (with-access::&http-redirection e (url)
    		      (wget url))
    		   (raise e)))
    	    (read-string (http-parse-response ip op parser))))))
The optional argument `args` is used for `post` method. The actual value should be a list of lists. Each of these sublists must have two values: the argument name the argument actual value The argument name can be either a string which is the name of the argument or a list of two elements. In that case, the first element of these list is the argument name. The second element should be a string that denotes additional parameter. Example:
    (http :host "localhost" :port 8080 :method 'post
       :header '((enctype: "multipart/form-data"))
       :args `(("x" "foo") (("foo.scm" "filename=\"foo.scm\"\nContent-type: application/octet-stream" ,(with-input-from-file "foo.scm" read-string))))
       ...)
An http connection blocks until the connection is established. If the optional argument `timeout` is provided, the connection must be established before the specified time interval elapses. The timeout is expressed in microseconds.
http-read-line input-port | bigloo procedure
http-read-crlf input-port | bigloo procedure
Reads a line or an end-of-line of an HTTP response.
http-parse-status-line input-port | bigloo procedure
Parses the status-line of an HTTP response. This returns a three values: The http version The status code the explanation phrase
http-parse-header input-port output-port | bigloo procedure
Parses the whole header of an HTTP response. It returns multiple values which are: the whole header as an alist. the host given in the `host` header. the port given `host` field. the optional `content-length` header field. the optional `transfer-encoding` header field. the optional `authorization` header field. the optional `proxy-authorization` header field. the optional `connection` header field.
http-parse-response input-port output-port procedure | bigloo procedure
Parses the whole response of an HTTP request. The argument `procedure` is invoked with five arguments: the input port to read the characters of the response, the status code, the header of the response, the content length, the type encoding.
http-response-body->port input-port output-port | bigloo procedure
Parses an HTTP response and build an output port that delivers the characters of the content.
http-chunks->procedure input-port | bigloo procedure
http-chunks->port input-port | bigloo procedure
http-send-chunks input-port output-port | bigloo procedure
1: Port 13 is generally used for testing: making a connection to it permits to know the distant system's idea of the time of day. 2: Under Unix, you can simply connect to listening socket with the `telnet` command. With the given example, this can be achived by typing the following command in a window shell: `$ telnet localhost 1234`

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