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RLispi - Lisp interpreter written in Rust.

This is a simple project written to educate myself in Rust and Lisp. As beginner both in Rust and in Lisp (I in a process of learning Clojure) this has many rough edges and potentially bad design choices.

Implementation details

This is an interpreter (so it is rather slow) and supports a small set of functions. Both interactive (REPL) and 'execute script' options are supported. Core constructs:

  • (if cond true_branch [false_branch])
  • (def symbol value)
  • (import "filename")
  • (fn (arg1 arg2 ...) body) Lists are represented as persistent linked lists. List functions: head, rest, list, cons, empty?.

User-defined functions support tail call optimisation using recur:

(def foldl
     (fn (fun acc coll)
         (if (empty? coll)
             acc
             (recur fun (fun acc (first coll)) (rest coll))
             )))

Potential further improvements

  • Support macros (it is Lisp in the end!)
  • Support lazy evaluation (currently everything is eagerly evaluated) so we can create infinite sequences.
  • Implement IO side-effects functions (e.g. print, read, etc...)
  • Add tests (yep, no tests so far =/)
  • Better string support

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