Embeddable & Hackable Lisp-2 Interpreter
There is a WebAssembly build, you can try it online.
- Lisp-2 (more like Common Lisp or Emacs Lisp)
- Lexical scoping
- The interpreter part is ~2500 LOC (excluding built-in functions)
- Tail call optimization
- Any C99 compiler should work
- Depends only on C standard library
- A simple mark-sweep GC
- Writing macro is easy with quasiquote, unquote, and slicing-unquote
- No global state, you can run multiple interpreters in multiple threads
- Exception and try-catch
- Support C-like control flow statements
- return
- break
- continue
To keep simplicity, Bamboo Lisp is a VERY SLOW tree-walking interpreter. The performance is similar to other small Lisp interpreters like TinyScheme or very early Emacs Lisp, which is only 1/5 to 1/10 that of modern Python.
Init submodule:
git submodule init --recursiveDebug:
git submodule init --recursive
makeRelease:
make clean
make mode=releaseAfter building, you can run the Bamboo Lisp interpreter using:
./bamboo-lisp # To enter the REPL (if applicable)
./bamboo-lisp <filename.lisp> # To run a Lisp fileYou can use load to load a lisp script into the interpreter:
(load "my-script.lisp")See tests/ for more examples.
(defun Y (f)
(funcall
(lambda (g) (funcall g g))
(lambda (h)
(funcall f (lambda args (apply (funcall h h) args))))))
(defun fibo-impl (self)
(lambda (n)
(if (<= n 2)
1
(+ (funcall self (- n 1)) (funcall self (- n 2))))))
(defvar fibo (Y #'fibo-impl))
(funcall fibo 10)
;; Expected output: 55(defmacro inc (x)
`(setq ,x (+ ,x 1)))
(defmacro for (start pred inc . body)
`(let (,start)
(while ,pred
,@body
,inc)))
(for (i 0) (< i 10) (inc i)
(princ "meow\n"))
;; Expected output:
;; meow
;; meow
;; ... (10 times)