Scheme For Max - Documentation

Contents:

• Overview
• Motivation - Why Lisp in Max?
• Setup and Installation
• Using Scheme For Max
  • The s4m object
  • Arguments & Attributes
  • Reserved Words and Naming Conventions
  • Messages to inlet 0
  • Messages to inlet 1+
  • s4m.repl patcher
• S4M Scheme API
  • File Loading
  • Console Output
  • Outputs
  • Sending Messages
  • Table I/O
  • Buffer I/O
  • Dictionary I/O & hash-tables
  • Max Time and Transport API
  • Scheduling, Delays, & Timers
• Algorithmic Processes and Live-Coding
  • Dynamically Redefining Scheduled Functions
  • Capturing variables with lexical closures
  • Temporal Recursion / Recursive Scheduling
  • Recurive Scheduling and Lexical Closures
  • Controlling Recursive Processes
• Max Threads, the Scheduler and the S7 Garbage Collector
  • Max’s scheduling model
  • Delay and Defer operations:
  • The S7 Garbage Collector
  • S4M Thread Selection
  • Comparison to JS and Node For Max
• Building From Source
  • Short version
  • Long version
• Why S7 Scheme?
  • About S7 and S74 Scheme
  • S74 Scheme
  • Advantages of S7
  • Disadvantages of S7
  • Other options that were considered
  • Final Thoughts