Interpreter

The intepreter is called mnml. It can be run interactively:

$ mnml
>

It accepts a file name as a parameter:

$ mnml file.l

It can be used as a shebang interpreter:

#!/usr/bin/env mnml

(load '(math +))
(+ 1 2)

By default, only the symbols def, load, and quote from the std module are available. Scripts are strongly encouraged to load what they use.

Environment variables

MNML_DEBUG

If Minima.l has been compiled with debug support, this variable controls which class of debug output to generate. It accepts a comma-separated list of category names:

• BIND: argument binding operations
• CHAN: I/O channel operations
• CLOS: evaluation closures
• CONS: list construction operations
• EVAL: expression evaluation
• MAKE: atom creation operations * MODL: module operations
• REFC: reference counting operations
• SLOT: slot allocator operations
• SLAB: slab allocator operations

$ MNML_DEBUG=MODL,SLOT mnml

The variable can be left empty to restrict debug output to eval.

MNML_MODULE_PATH

This variable controls where to look for modules, the default being the lib/mnml directory in the installation prefix. It accepts a colon-separated list of paths:

$ MNML_MODULE_PATH=/some/path:/some/other/path mnml

MNML_SCRIPT_PATH

This variable controls where to look for lisp scripts, the default being share/mnml in the installation prefix. It accepts a colon-separated list of paths:

$ MNML_SCRIPT_PATH=/some/path:/some/other/path mnml

When set, that path is used to match occurences of @lib in (load) statements.