How do you run Scheme programs from the terminal in linux(ubuntu)? Also how to accept arguments from the command-line in a Scheme program?
Edit: Im using the DrScheme implementation.
How do you run Scheme programs from the terminal in linux(ubuntu)? Also how to accept arguments from the command-line in a Scheme program?
Edit: Im using the DrScheme implementation.
The DrScheme scheme implementation, and the name you use to execute it from the command line, is mzscheme
. The documentation for starting a command line script is found here: Unix Scripts (PLT Scheme documentation). Use of the command line args is explained here: Command-line Parsing (PLT Scheme Documentation).
The upshot is that you can use shebang scripts like this:
#! /usr/bin/env mzscheme
#lang scheme/base
(...scheme s-exps...)
or if you want more control over the command line flags for mzscheme
, you need to start the script like this:
#! /bin/sh
#|
exec mzscheme -cu "$0" ${1+"$@"}
|#
#lang scheme/base
(...scheme s-exps...)
The function you use to process command line args is command-line
. You will find examples of how to use it in the article linked to by the second link.
It is not standardized in the R6RS. There is a recommendation SRFI-22, which some interpreters support. If your interpreter does not support SRFI-22 then it depends on your implementation.
Below is an example from the SRFI. It assumes your interpreter is a binary named scheme-r5rs. Basically it calls a function named main with a single arg that is a list of command line args.
#! /usr/bin/env scheme-r5rs
(define (main arguments)
(for-each display-file (cdr arguments))
0)
(define (display-file filename)
(call-with-input-file filename
(lambda (port)
(let loop ()
(let ((thing (read-char port)))
(if (not (eof-object? thing))
(begin
(write-char thing)
(loop))))))))
This solution works for me
#! /usr/bin/env guile
!#
(display "hello")
(newline)
Also how to accept arguments from the command-line in a Scheme program?
The R6RS library defines a function called command-line
which returns the list of the arguments (the first one being the name of the program). Not all implementations of Scheme implement R6RS though; your implementation might have some other function for this.
How do you run Scheme programs from the terminal in linux(ubuntu)?
It depends on which implementation of Scheme you're using.