Following-up discussion on https://codeberg.org/aartaka/r7rs-html5/issues/8

Marc

> On Dec 29, 2025, at 1:08 PM, Artyom Bologov <xxxxxx@aartaka.me> wrote:
>
> Hi Marc,
>
>> It would be really nice to combine this document with the
>> https://try.scheme.org/ online Scheme system. In particular, the code
>> examples could be executed on try.scheme.org <http://try.scheme.org/>
>> by clicking on examples in the R7RS document.
>
> I’m totally open to that, but only on my fork/deploy, because I don’t
> want to force any scripts onto the reader in the default setup. Still, I
> have a fairly good idea for how this might work.
>
>> 1) The R7RS HTML document could have hyperlinks to try.scheme.org
>> <http://try.scheme.org/>
>
> Yes, that seems to be the best option to me. Having buttons/links in
> code blocks is pretty uninvasive, but can allow to easily redirect to
> try.scheme.org! The only thing I theoretically need for that is a way to
> open try.scheme.org with pre-filled expressions. Is there an API for
> that? Maybe some query parameter I’m not aware of? Something like:
>
> https://try.scheme.org?eval=(define x 1)
>
>> 2) The try.scheme.org site could include the R7RS HTML document
>
> I’m fine with that! It’s one of the use-cases for my project, in
> fact. See the description of that on the source repository:
> https://codeberg.org/aartaka/r7rs-html5#headline-3
>
>> 3) The R7RS HTML document could include the online interpreter, making the R7RS HTML document self-contained
>
> Hmmmmmm. The goal of my personal hosted version (r7rs.aartaka.me) is to
> be the minimal possible change from the original document, purely
> enhancing styles and minor behaviors. And the original document tries to
> stick to pure HTML without scripts to be maximally compatible with most
> browsers.
>
> try.scheme.org buttons/links fall into the minimal change requirement of
> my fork, but bundling an interpreter doesn’t. Still, the idea is good,
> don’t get me wrong! Just not on that particular hosted version of the
> standard.
>
> So yes, to summarize: I’m curious of whether there’s a way to pass
> expressions to try.scheme.org, because (I believe) that alone would be
> enough to integrate the standard document with it!
>
> Best of love,
> --
> Artyom Bologov
> https://aartaka.me
>