Kawa, the Java-based Scheme system

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### Eval and Environments

eval expression [environment] | Function

`eval` evaluates expression in the environment indicated by environment. The default for environment is the result of `(interaction-environment)`.

null-environment version | Function

This procedure returns an environment that contains no variable bindings, but contains (syntactic) bindings for all the syntactic keywords. The effect of assigning to a variable in this environment (such as `let`) is undefined.

scheme-report-environment version | Function

The version must be an exact non-negative inetger corresponding to a version of one of the Revisedversion Reports on Scheme. The procedure returns an environment that contains exactly the set of bindings specified in the corresponding report. This implementation supports version that is 4 or 5. The effect of assigning to a variable in this environment (such as `car`) is undefined.

interaction-environment | Function

This procedure return an environment that contains implementation-defined bindings, as well as top-level user bindings.

environment-bound? environment symbol | Function

Return true `#t` if there is a binding for symbol in environment; otherwise returns `#f`.

fluid-let ((variable init) ...) body ... | Syntax

Evaluate the init expressions. Then modify the dynamic bindings for the variables to the values of the init expressions, and evaluate the body expressions. Return the result of the last expression in body. Before returning, restore the original bindings. The temporary bindings are only visible in the current thread, and its descendent threads.

base-uri [node] | Function

If node is specified, returns the base-URI property of the node. If the node does not have the base-URI property, returns `#f`. (The XQuery version returns the empty sequence in that case.) In the zero-argument case, returns the "base URI" of the current context. By default the base URI is the current working directory (as a URL). While a source file is `load`ed, the base URI is temporarily set to the URL of the document.

load path | Function

The path can be an (absolute) URL or a filename.

load-relative path | Function

Same as `load`, except that path is a URI that is relative to the context's current base URI.