Design overview

• Character sets and unicode support
• Built-in types
  • ArrayTypes
• BuiltInClasses
• CustomClasses (defclass defined)
• Condition handling
  • BuiltInConditions
  • CustomConditions (define-condition defined)
  • Handling of critical errors (such as out-of-memory and stack overflow)
• JavaFfi: calling from Lisp into Java and other more advanced interactions with the Java runtime
  • Defining Java classes in Lisp
• JSR-223: Java Scripting API support

System

• SystemBootstrap
• SystemBootsequence
• SystemExecution
  • SystemInterpreter
  • SystemCompiler
• DesignOfStreams

Packages

• PackageCreation

Compiler

• Compilation phases
• (pre-)Compiler code structure

File compiler

• FileCompilation into fasl files
• FaslFormatAndLoading

Functions and Closures

• Compiled functions
• Compiled closures
• Loading compiled functions

Environments

• Lexical environment
• Compilation environment
• Dynamic environment
• Global environment