Scheme to Common Lisp translator

From: Sven Hartrumpf
Subject: Scheme to Common Lisp translator
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <32ECE943.40DE@fernuni-hagen.de>

Hello everyone,

I want to translate Scheme files (r4rs compliant) to Common Lisp files
(ANSI compliant) preserving layout and comments of the original program.
Has anybody written a program that solves this problem, at least
partially?



Ciao,

Sven


P.S.
What is the status of r5rs?

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From: Martin Cracauer
Subject: Re: Scheme to Common Lisp translator
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <1997Jan28.092207.21474@wavehh.hanse.de>

Sven Hartrumpf <··············@fernuni-hagen.de> writes:

>I want to translate Scheme files (r4rs compliant) to Common Lisp files
>(ANSI compliant) preserving layout and comments of the original program.
>Has anybody written a program that solves this problem, at least
>partially?

If your intend is to run Scheme programs under Common Lisp, I think
the best way is to use one of the Scheme implementations for Common
Lisp. The FAQ lists some.

I don't know of any translation tool. Using one probably depends on
the Scheme code to translate. call/cc will give you a tough problem
unless you settle to a CL implementation with similar capabilities
(ECL, as far as I can judge).

Straight function-oriented code should be easy to automate as long as
you solve the multiple-namespace problem, that means you need to find
an automated way to determine when a #' is needed. You will probably
need to translate the whole Scheme program and all its libraries at
once to do so.

>P.S.
>What is the status of r5rs?

I saw no public state report lately.

Martin
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