Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

compare with caml solutions? compare with any other solution?


There are parsers for Haskell which would compare very favourably 
with your lisp parser. I haven't used them myself but I've seen 
example code somewhere.

The Parsec manual contains a few nice examples and pointers to further literature
on parser combinators if you are interested.

<http://www.cs.uu.nl/~daan/parsec.html>

Everything is statically checked of course ;-)

All the best,
-- Daan Leijen.

i'm told there are good scheme compilers.


Since scheme is a dynamically typed language, scheme compilers are
unlikely to ever produce code as fast as a compiler for a statically 
typed langugae like ocaml.

Erik