Adds the rest of the standard syntactic operators, all built on the
existing eval/closure infrastructure from Phase 3:
- let — parallel bindings in fresh child env; values evaluated in
outer env (RHS sees pre-let bindings only). Multi-body via
scheme-eval-body.
- let* — sequential bindings, each in a nested child env; later
bindings see earlier ones.
- cond — clauses walked in order; first truthy test wins. `else`
symbol is the catch-all. Test-only clauses (no body) return the
test value. Scheme truthiness: only #f is false.
- when / unless — single-test conditional execution, multi-body
body via scheme-eval-body.
- and / or — short-circuit boolean. Empty `(and)` = true,
`(or)` = false. Both return the actual value at the point
of short-circuit (not coerced to bool), matching R7RS.
130 total Scheme tests (62 parse + 23 eval + 45 syntax). The
Scheme port is now self-hosting enough to write any non-stdlib
program — factorial, list operations via primitives, closures
with mutable state, all working.
Next phase: standard env (runtime.sx) with variadic +/-, list
ops as Scheme-visible applicatives.
eval.sx grows: five new syntactic operators wired via the table-
driven dispatch from Phase 2. lambda creates closures
{:scm-tag :closure :params :rest :body :env} that capture the
static env; scheme-apply-closure binds formals + rest-arg, evaluates
multi-expression body in (extend static-env), returns last value.
Supports lambda formals shapes:
() → no args
(a b c) → fixed arity
args → bare symbol; binds all call-args as a list
Dotted-pair tail (a b . rest) deferred until parser supports it.
define has both flavours:
(define name expr) — direct binding
(define (name . formals) body...) — lambda sugar
set! walks the env chain via refl-env-find-frame, mutates at the
binding's source frame (no shadowing). Raises on unbound name.
24 new tests in lib/scheme/tests/syntax.sx, including:
- Factorial 5 → 120 and 10 → 3628800 (recursion + closures)
- make-counter via closed-over set! state
- Curried (((curry+ 1) 2) 3) → 6
- (lambda args args) rest-arg binding
- Multi-body lambdas with internal define
109 total Scheme tests (62 parse + 23 eval + 24 syntax).