Kawa: Compiling Scheme to Java

January, 1997

• Introduction
• Background
• Objects and Values
• Symbols
• Numbers
• Mixed-type arithmetic
• Quantities
• Collections
• Procedures
• Overview of compilation
• Top-level environments
• Expressions
• Translation
• Syntax and Macros
• Code generation
• The codegen package
• Literals
• Low-level procedures
• Continuations
• Tail-calls
• Classes, types, and declarations
• Current and Future Work
• Conclusion
• Biographical Information