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33.2.1 Feature Manipulation

To check whether a particular feature is available, use the provided? procedure:

provided? feature	Scheme Procedure
feature? feature	Deprecated Scheme Procedure

Return #t if the specified feature is available, otherwise #f.

To advertise a feature from your own Scheme code, you can use the provide procedure:

provide feature

Scheme Procedure

Add feature to the list of available features in this Guile process.

For C code, the equivalent function takes its feature name as a char * argument for convenience:

void scm_add_feature (const char *str)

C Function

Add a symbol with name str to the list of available features in this Guile process.