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Arc: Table of Contents

This site has multiple pages of documentation on the Arc language. The following is a table of contents. This is a work in progress, so I plan to add more as time permits.

The Arc Language

Basics

The foundation: a guide to the core axioms of the language.
Assignment and places: how places (generalized variables) are used in Arc.
Boolean operations
Iteration: Looping and iteration
Conditionals
Evaluation
List operations
Macros
Math
Predicates
String operations
Table operations
Type operations
Variable operations

OS functions

Networking
Atomic operations: performing operations atomically.
Operating system
I/O in the Arc language: an overview of the operations to read and write files and strings.
Filesystem operations: operations on files and directories.
Threads: Execution threads in Arc
Time operations: Measuring time in the Arc language

Derived data types

Association lists
Templates: Arc's template abstraction
Trees: Arc's binary tree abstraction
Queues: Arc's queue abstraction

Other language features

Error handling
Anaphoric operations: Self-referential operations

Web serving

Internals

Introduction to Arc internals: a look at how Arc is implemented on top of MzScheme.
Macros: the internals: examination of the internal implementation of macros and how they are processed.
Internals of places and setforms: how assignment, places, and setforms are implemented in the Arc language.

Index of Arc

Index: an index to all the functions in Arc.

Other sources of information

If you want an overview of Arc, the Arc Tutorial is the place to start. The MzScheme Language Manual is useful for understanding many of Arc's commands, since Arc runs on top of MzScheme. The Common Lisp HyperSpec provides insight into many of the concepts of Arc.

Several interesting books are available free online: Paul Graham's On Lisp describes many of the concepts that ended up in Arc. Practical Common Lisp is a very interesting guide to Lisp, Common Lisp the Language is a good reference, and Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is perhaps the best way to learn Scheme.

Useful print books include Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp, the print editions of Practical Common Lisp and Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, The Little Schemer, and Peter Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming.