> If you need both syntax extensions and complicated programs / data structures,
> you might as well try elk,
Yes, I can second that recommendation. Nicely done, easy to extend and
imbed. Not as powerful and featureful as Python, but a good solid
extended scheme.
>From the announcement:
Release 2.0 of Elk, the Extension Language Kit, is now available.
Elk is a Scheme interpreter intended to be used as a general, reusable
extension language subsystem for integration into existing and future
applications. Elk can also be used as a stand-alone implementation of
the Scheme programming language.
Elk supports several additional language features to increase its
usability as an extension language, among them dynamic, incremental
loading of object files and `freezing' of a fully customized application
into a new executable file (`dump').
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Elk is now easily usable with ANSI C and C++ (as well as with pre-ANSI C).
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Elk release 2.0 can be obtained via anonymous FTP from
tub.cs.tu-berlin.de (pub/elk/elk-2.0.tar.Z), and from ftp.x.org
(contrib/elk-2.0.tar.Z).
Bill