Bigloo

	Acknowledgements
1	Table of contents
2	Overview of Bigloo
	2.1	SRFI
	2.2	Separate compilation
	2.3	C interface
	2.4	Java interface
	2.5	Object language
	2.6	Threads
	2.7	SQL
	2.8	Type annotations
	2.9	Unicode support
	2.10	DSSSL
3	Modules
	3.1	Program Structure
	3.2	Module declaration
	3.3	Module initialization
	3.4	Qualified notation
	3.5	Inline procedures
	3.6	Module access file
	3.7	Reading path
4	Core Language
	4.1	Syntax
5	DSSSL support
	5.1	DSSSL formal argument lists
	5.2	Modules and DSSSL formal argument lists
6	Standard Library
	6.1	Scheme Library
	6.2	Input and output
	6.3	Serialization
	6.4	Bit manipulation
	6.5	Weak Pointers
	6.6	Hash Tables
	6.7	System programming
	6.8	Date
	6.9	Digest
	6.10	Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)
	6.11	Internet
	6.12	URLs
	6.13	HTTP
7	Pattern Matching
	7.1	Bigloo pattern matching facilities
	7.2	The pattern language
8	Fast search
	8.1	Knuth, Morris, and Pratt
	8.2	Boyer - Moore
	8.3	Boyer - Moore - Horspool
9	Structures and Records
	9.1	Structures
	9.2	Records (SRFI-9)
10	Object System
	10.1	Class declaration
	10.2	Creating and accessing objects
	10.3	Generic functions
	10.4	Widening and shrinking
	10.5	Object library
	10.6	Object serialization
	10.7	Equality
	10.8	Introspection
11	Regular parsing
	11.1	A new way of reading
	11.2	The syntax of the regular grammar
	11.3	The semantics actions
	11.4	Options and user definitions
	11.5	Examples of regular grammar
12	Lalr(1) parsing
	12.1	Grammar definition
	12.2	Precedence and associativity
	12.3	The parsing function
	12.4	The regular grammar
	12.5	Debugging Lalr Grammars
	12.6	A simple example
13	Posix Regular Expressions
	13.1	Regular Expressions Procedures
	13.2	Regular Expressions Pattern Language
	13.3	An Extended Example
14	Command Line Parsing
15	Cryptography
	15.1	Symmetric Block Ciphers
	15.2	Public Key Cryptography
	15.3	OpenPGP
	15.4	Development
16	Errors, Assertions, and Traces
	16.1	Errors and Warnings
	16.2	Exceptions
	16.3	Deprecated try form
	16.4	Assertions
	16.5	Tracing
17	Threads
	17.1	Thread Common Functions
	17.2	Threads
	17.3	Posix Threads
	17.4	Mixing Thread APIs
18	Database
	18.1	SQLite
19	Multimedia
	19.1	Photography
	19.2	Music
	19.3	Color
20	Mail
	20.1	RFC 2045 -- MIME, Part one
	20.2	RFC 2047 -- MIME, Part three
	20.3	RFC 2426 -- MIME, Part three
	20.4	RFC 2822 -- Internet Message Format
	20.5	Mail servers -- imap and maildir
21	Text
	21.1	BibTeX
	21.2	Character strings
	21.3	Character encodings
22	CSV
	22.1	Overview
	22.2	API Reference
23	Eval and code interpretation
	23.1	Eval compliance
	23.2	Eval standard functions
	23.3	Eval command line options
	23.4	Eval and the foreign interface
24	Macro expansion
	24.1	Expansion passing style macros
	24.2	Revised(5) macro expansion
25	Parameters
26	Explicit typing
27	The C interface
	27.1	The syntax of the foreign declarations
	27.2	The very dangerous ``pragma'' Bigloo special forms
	27.3	Name mangling
	27.4	Embedded Bigloo applications
	27.5	Using C bindings within the interpreter
28	The Java interface
	28.1	Compiling with the JVM back-end
	28.2	JVM back-end and SRFI-0
	28.3	Limitation of the JVM back-end
	28.4	Connecting Scheme and Java code
	28.5	Performance of the JVM back-end
29	Bigloo Libraries
	29.1	Compiling and linking with a library
	29.2	Library and inline functions
	29.3	library and eval
	29.4	library and repl
	29.5	Building a library
	29.6	Library and modules
	29.7	Library and macros
	29.8	A complete library example
30	Extending the Runtime System
31	SRFIs
	31.1	SRFI 0
	31.2	SRFI 1
	31.3	SRFI 22
32	Compiler description
	32.1	C requirement
	32.2	JVM requirement
	32.3	Linking
	32.4	The compiler environment and options
33	Cross Compilation
	33.1	Introduction
	33.2	Building the Bigloo library for the host-platform
	33.3	Cross Compiling Bigloo Programs
	33.4	Caveats
	33.5	Examples
34	User Extensions
	34.1	User pass
35	Bigloo Development Environment
	35.1	Installing the Bee
	35.2	Entering the Bee
	35.3	The Bee Root Directory
	35.4	Building a Makefile
	35.5	Compiling
	35.6	Interpreting
	35.7	Pretty Printing
	35.8	Expansing
	35.9	On-line Documentation
	35.10	Searching for Source Code
	35.11	Importing and Exporting
	35.12	Debugging
	35.13	Profiling
	35.14	Revision Control
	35.15	Literate Programming
36	Global Index
37	Library Index
	Bibliography