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   This chapter of the manual is a full guide to the librep Lisp
programming language, including documentation for most of the built-in
functions.

Intro

Introduction and Lisp conventions

Fundamental data types.

Data Types

Data types and values in Lisp

Numbers

Numeric representations and functions

Sequences

Ordered sequences of data values

Symbols

Symbols are uniquely named objects

The core language.

Evaluation

Evaluating expressions

Variables

Symbols represent named variables

Functions

The building blocks of Lisp programs

Macros

User-defined control structures

Definitions

Block-structured definitions

Modules

Scoping for "global" definitions

Control Structures

Conditionals, loops, etc...

Threads

Multi-threaded programs

Loading

Programs are stored in files

Compiled Lisp

Making programs run faster

Data structures and I/O.

Datums

Low-level data type definition

Queues

FIFO queue type

Records

Defining structured data types

Hash Tables

Efficient table lookups

Guardians

Protecting objects from GC

Streams

Data sinks and sources; character streams

Hooks

Hooks promote extensibility

Files

Manipulating files in the filing system

Processes

launch and control subprocesses when

running under Unix

Miscellaneous features.

Regular Expressions

Matching regular expressions

Time and Date

Manipulating time and date

i18n

Internationalisation

System Information

Getting details about the host

User Information

The name of the user

Environment Variables

Reading and writing the environment

String Functions

Misc string manipulation

Sleeping

Waiting for a period of time

Beeping

Making a ding! sound

Messages

Writing to the console

Command Line Options

Retrieving command line arguments

Shell Commands

Executing shell commands

Timers

Asynchronous timers

Debugging

How to debug Lisp programs

Tips

General ideas for `librep' programming

   This manual still fails to document the following functions:
default-boundp, default-value, recursive-edit, regexp-cache-control,
sdbm-close, sdbm-delete, sdbm-error, sdbm-fetch, sdbm-firstkey,
sdbm-nextkey, sdbm-open, sdbm-rdonly, sdbm-store, sdbmp, set-default,
setq-default,