Inactive-Reserved Standard

IEEE 1178-1990

IEEE Standard for the Scheme Programming Language

Reaffirmed 2008. The form and meaning of programs written in the Scheme programming language, in particular, their syntax, the semantic rules for interpreting them, and the representation of data to be input or output by them, are specified. The fundamental ideas of the language and the notational conventions used for describing and writing programs in the language are presented. The syntax and semantics of expressions, programs, and definitions are specified. Scheme's built-in procedures, which include all of the language's data manipulation and input/output primitives, are described, and a formal syntax for Scheme written in extended Backus-Nauru form is provided. Formal denotational semantics for Scheme and some issues in the implementation of Scheme's arithmetic are covered in the appendixes.

Sponsor Committee
C/MSC - Microprocessor Standards Committee
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Status
Inactive-Reserved Standard
Board Approval
1990-12-10
History
ANSI Approved:
1991-06-17
Published:
1991-11-30
Reaffirmed:
2008-03-27
Inactivated Date:
2019-11-07

Working Group Details

Society
IEEE Computer Society
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Sponsor Committee
C/MSC - Microprocessor Standards Committee
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Working Group
1178_WG - Programming Language Working Group
IEEE Program Manager
Tom Thompson
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Working Group Chair
Ralph Kearfott

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