Re: questions about kawa (or possibly scheme)

[don-kawa at isis dot cs3-inc dot com (Don Cohen)]

Per Bothner writes:

 > > The main question is where I should look (if there is any such place)
 > > for answers to questions such as those below.
Since there's no answer, I guess this is the place.

 > > Is there something way to find what symbols have function bindings
 > > like *packages* and do-symbols ?
 > 
 > Do remember that Kawa is very compiler-oriented.  So, to a large
 > extent is Scheme - especially R6RS.  Function bindings may be
 > local to a module or other scope, in which case they're not
 > accessible from a symbol or package.
 > 
 > Kawa does have packages and a way to get at symbols, but it's
 > not really supported.  What do you need this for?  Perhaps
 > you'r asking the wrong question?

I was hoping to browse the list and thus find functions/variables
of interest.  What's the proper way to find out what's there?
I tried looking at the latest scheme spec index but I don't see things
like write -- which I just guessed by luck after print didn't work.

At a higher level the objective is to write applications in lisp 
(I'm hoping scheme will suffice) while using java for the UI.
I've been assuming that it's easy from a java app to create a kawa
process, pass it strings to read/eval/print, get the string outputs
from print and put them into the java UI.
Is this plan impacted by kawa being compiler oriented, or anything
else that you can tell?