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(guile.info)Relationship between Scheme and C functions

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Relationship between Scheme and C functions
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Scheme procedures marked "primitive functions" have a regular interface
when calling from C, reflected in two areas: the name of a C function,
and the convention for passing non-required arguments to this function.

Transforming Scheme name to C name

Structuring argument lists for C functions