Jamie Taylor

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Document in-memory layout of Scheme values (and reasoning)

The GitHub wiki is a convenient (for some definition of "convenient") place to dump documentation, hints, etc. that aren't part of Chez Scheme proper (even if they perhaps should be)....

cannot open file 'csv94.dll'

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underscore in auxiliary literals of syntax-rules

The production for `` in r6rs section 4.2.1 does not admit sequences of characters starting with a period except for the "peculiar identifier" `...`.

Boot files with compiled libraries fail to load

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Windows build suggestions

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Separate code allocation segments

I should mention that the GitHub diff does a particularly poor job identifying the actual changes in `gcwrapper.c`. You may want to do the diff yourself with the "ignore whitespace...

Running `,@ in the REPL does not throw an exception.

This is an interesting issue. I think the r6rs specification has some edge cases where the descriptive text doesn't quite do what you'd expect in conjunction with the grammar for...

Feature Request: Add a function to execute a file without going through the Shell.

`process` still invokes a shell ([`/bin/sh`, specifically](https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme/blob/bab1ade703ba7d7369798f09b6feb33ee5806699/c/prim5.c#L773)), and the example quotes but does not escape string arguments. Writing a function to properly escape the arguments is not exactly complicated, but...

Feature Request: Add a function to execute a file without going through the Shell.

I wonder if [scsh](https://scsh.net) still works.

Feature Request: Add a function to execute a file without going through the Shell.

Magically changing the behavior based on scanning the string and assuming we know what `/bin/sh` would do with it seems like an even worse idea.