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Guile Reference Manual

Guile Reference Manual

This reference manual documents Guile, GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions. It describes how to use Guile in many useful and interesting ways.

This Info file contains edition 1.0 of the reference manual, corresponding to Guile version 1.6.2.

Preface

1. The Guile License		Conditions for copying and using Guile.
2. Layout of this Manual		How to read the rest of this manual.
3. Conventions used in this Manual		Conventional terminology.

Part I: Introduction to Guile

4. What is Guile?		And what does it do?
5. A Whirlwind Tour		An introductory whirlwind tour.
6. Obtaining and Installing Guile
7. Reporting Bugs		Reporting bugs in Guile or this manual.

Part II: Writing and Running Guile Scheme

Part II: Writing and Running Guile Scheme		Introduction to this part.
8. Guile's Implementation of Scheme		Guile's implementation of Scheme.
9. Guile Scripting		How to write Guile scripts.
10. Handling Command Line Options and Arguments		Command line options and arguments.
11. Debugging Features		Features for debugging errors.
12. Autoconf Support		Guile-specific configure.in macros.
13. Miscellaneous Tools		Snarfing, linting, etc.
14. Basic Ideas in Scheme		Basic ideas in Scheme.
15. Further Reading		Where to find out more about Scheme.

Part III: Guile as an Extension Language

Part III: Guile as an Extension Language		Introduction to this part.
16. Using Guile as an Extension Language		Using Guile as an extension language.
17. An Overview of Guile Programming		An overview of Guile programming.
18. Data Representation in Guile		Data representation in Guile.
19. GH: A Portable C to Scheme Interface		The deprecated GH interface.

Part IV: Guile API Reference

Part IV: Guile API Reference		Introduction to the Guile API reference.
20. Overview of the Guile API
21. Simple Generic Data Types		Numbers, strings, booleans and so on.
22. Compound Data Types		Data types for holding other data.
23. Procedures and Macros		Procedures and macros.
24. General Utility Functions		General utility functions.
25. Definitions and Variable Bindings		Definitions and variable bindings.
26. Controlling the Flow of Program Execution		Controlling the flow of program execution.
27. Input and Output		Ports, reading and writing.
28. Reading and Evaluating Scheme Code		Reading and evaluating Scheme code.
29. Memory Management and Garbage Collection		Memory management and garbage collection.
30. Objects		Low level object orientation support.
31. Modules		Designing reusable code libraries.
32. Threads, Mutexes, Asyncs and Dynamic Roots		Threads, mutexes, asyncs and dynamic roots.
33. Configuration, Features and Runtime Options		Configuration, features and runtime options.
34. Support for Translating Other Languages		Support for translating other languages.
35. Debugging Infrastructure		Internal debugging interface.
36. Deprecated		Features that are planned to disappear.

Part V: Guile Modules

37. SLIB		Using the SLIB Scheme library.
38. POSIX System Calls and Networking		POSIX system calls and networking.
39. SRFI Support Modules		Support for various SRFIs.
40. Readline Support		Module for using the readline library.
41. Value History		Maintaining a value history in the REPL.
42. Pretty Printing		Nicely formatting Scheme objects for output.
43. Formatted Output		The format procedure.
44. The Rx Regular Expression Library		The Rx regular expression library.
45. Expect		Controlling interactive programs with Guile.
46. The Scheme shell (scsh)		Using scsh interfaces in Guile.

Indices

Concept Index
Procedure Index
Variable Index
Type Index
R5RS Index