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Minimal Scheme implemented in Rust

Do It, Do It Again, and Again, and Again ...
  — The Little Schemer by Friedmann and Felleisen

(source https://xkcd.com/297/)

rusch implements the following procedures:

• (car pair) returns the first element, and (cdr pair) returns the second element (tail) of the pair.
• (cons obj1 obj2) creates pair where obj1 is car and obj2 is cdr. (list obj1 obj2 ...) is the same as (cons obj1 (cons obj2 (cons obj3 ...))).
• (define name value) assigns value to a name in the current environment. (set! name value) if the name exists in the current or enclosing environment, it sets it to the value, otherwise, it assigns value to a name in the current environment.
• (lambda (arg1 arg2 ...) expr1 expr2 ...) defines a lambda expression (aka function). There is also an equivalent, shorter way of writing (define name (lambda (arg1 arg2 ...) expr1 expr2 ...)) as (define (name arg1 arg2 ...) expr1 expr2 ...).
• (let ((var1 expr1) (var2 expr2) ...) body1 body2 ...) evaluates body1, body2, ... in the local environment, with var1, var2, ... variables present; returns the result of evaluating the last bodyN expression. let* is like let, but the arguments are evaluated sequentially, from left to right, and the following arguments can depend on the preceding. The syntax (let name ((var1 expr1) (var2 expr2) ...) body1 doby2 ...) can be used for defining named let.
• (if condition if-true if-false) and (cond (test1 expr1) (test2 expr2) ...) conditionals with special else condition always evaluating to #t, e.g. (cond (else 'yay)).
• (begin expr1 expr2 ...) evaluates expr1, expr2, ..., returns the result of evaluating the last exprN expression.
• (quote expr) or 'expr returns expr without evaluating it. While quote is commonly used for constructing lists, it is not the same as list. (quasiquote expr) or `expr works like quote, but parts of the expression can be evaluated using (unquote expr) or ,expr, for example `(2 + 2 = ,(+ 2 2)) will evaluate to (2 + 2 = 4).
• (eval expr) does the opposite to quote by evaluating expr, e.g. (eval '(+ 2 2)) returns 4 rather than the (+ 2 2) list.
• (eq? obj1 obj2) compares if two objects are equal, equal? is just an alias for it.
• Logical (not obj), and, and or, e.g. (and obj1 obj2 ...).
• Arithmetic operators +, -, *, /, e.g. (+ x1 x2 ...), and % for Euclidean remainder as defined in Rust. Those procedures promote integers to floats if any of the arguments is a float. Division / always promotes arguments to floats, for Euclidean division use //.
• Numerical comparison operators <, =, >, e.g. (< x1 x2 ...).
• Checkers for the disjoint types: pair?, number?, boolean?, string?, symbol?, procedure?, and other checkers: integer?, float?, null? (empty list) and nil? (null value).
• ->int and ->float transformations from any numeric types to integers and floats.
• (string expr ...) converts exprs to string, (display expr ...) prints them, and (error expr ...) raises exceptions with exprs as a message.
• reverse can be used to reverse a list.

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The design of this implementation is similar to the one in Go and it was described in more detail in the blog post.