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The Guile Reference Manual
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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 1.4.

Preface

Guile License

Conditions for copying and using Guile.

Manual Layout

How to read the rest of this manual.

Part I: Introduction to Guile

What is Guile?

And what does it do?

Whirlwind Tour

An introductory whirlwind tour.

Reporting Bugs

Reporting bugs in Guile or this manual.

Part II: Guile Scheme

Scheme Intro

Introduction to Guile Scheme.

Basic Ideas

Basic ideas in Scheme.

Data Types

Data types for generic use.

Procedures and Macros

Procedures and macros.

Utility Functions

General utility functions.

Binding Constructs

Definitions and variable bindings.

Control Mechanisms

Controlling the flow of program execution.

Input and Output

Ports, reading and writing.

Read/Load/Eval

Reading and evaluating Scheme code.

Memory Management

Memory management and garbage collection.

Objects

Low level object orientation support.

Modules

Designing reusable code libraries.

Scheduling

Threads, mutexes, asyncs and dynamic roots.

Options and Config

Runtime options and configuration.

Translation

Support for translating other languages.

Debugging

Internal debugging interface.

Deprecated

Features that are planned to disappear.

Further Reading

Where to find out more about Scheme programming.

R5RS Index

Guile Extensions Index

Part III: Guile Modules

SLIB

Using the SLIB Scheme library.

POSIX

POSIX System Calls and Networking.

Expect

Controlling interactive programs with Guile.

The Scheme shell (scsh)

The SCSH compatibility module has been made an add-on, so maybe it shouldn't be documented here (though it is nice to have a link from here to the Guile-scsh manual, if one exists).

Tcl/Tk Interface

Part IV: Guile Scripting

Guile Scripting

How to write Guile scripts.

Part V: Using Scheme with C --- A Portable Interface

A Portable C to Scheme Interface

gh preliminaries

Data types and constants defined by gh

Starting and controlling the interpreter

Error messages

Executing Scheme code

Defining new Scheme procedures in C

Converting data between C and Scheme

Type predicates

Equality predicates

Memory allocation and garbage collection

Calling Scheme procedures from C

Mixing gh and scm APIs

Part VI: Using Scheme with C --- Guile's Interface

Scheme data representation

Relationship between Scheme and C functions

I/O internals

libguile error handling

snarfing

Appendices

Obtaining and Installing Guile

Debugger User Interface

Indices

Concept Index

Procedure Index

Variable Index

Type Index