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The Revised4 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme is available through anonymous FTP from ftp.cs.indiana.edu in the directory /pub/scheme-repository/doc
... systems22
Current version (3.1) allows image dumping only on some platforms:SunOs 4.1.x, SunOs 5.3, NetBSD 1.0, HPUX, Irix 5.3
... defined33
Some of these constants may be undefined if they are not supported by your system
...kaolin.unice.fr''44
Port 13 is generally used for testing: making a connection to it permits to know the distant system's idea of the time of day.
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Under Unix, you can simply connect to listening socket with the telnet command. With the given example, this can be achived by typing the following command in a window shell:
$ telnet localhost 1234
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Image creation is not yet implemented on all systems. The current version (3.1) allows image dumping only on some platforms: SunOs 4.1.x, Linux 1, FreeBsd
... closures11
Old syntax for callbacks (i.e. strings) is always supported but its use is deprecated.
... closures22
Old syntax for bindings (i.e. strings) is no more supported. Old bindings scripts must hence be rewritten.
... classes).11
With this definition, a <real> is not a <complex> since <real> inherits from <number> rather than <complex>. In practice, inheritance could be modified a posteriori, if needed. However, this necessitates some knowledge of the meta object protocol and it will not be shown in this document
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This section is an adaptation of Jeff Dalton's (J.Dalton@ed.ac.uk) Brief introduction to CLOS)
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The third parameter of a define-method is a parameter list which follow the conventions used for lambda expressions. In particular it can use the dot notation or a symbol to denote an arbitrary number of parameters