Guile Reference Manual

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The 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 1.6.0.

Preface

• Guile License: Conditions for copying and using Guile.
• Manual Layout: How to read the rest of this manual.
• Manual Conventions: Conventional terminology.

  Part I: Introduction to Guile

• What is Guile?: And what does it do?
• Whirlwind Tour: An introductory whirlwind tour.
• Obtaining and Installing Guile:
• Reporting Bugs: Reporting bugs in Guile or this manual.

  Part II: Writing and Running Guile Scheme

• Running Intro: Introduction to this part.
• Guile Scheme: Guile's implementation of Scheme.
• Guile Scripting: How to write Guile scripts.
• Command Line Handling: Command line options and arguments.
• Debugging Features: Features for debugging errors.
• Autoconf Support: Guile-specific configure.in macros.
• Miscellaneous Tools: Snarfing, linting, etc.
• Basic Ideas: Basic ideas in Scheme.
• Further Reading: Where to find out more about Scheme.

  Part III: Guile as an Extension Language

• Programming Intro: Introduction to this part.
• Libguile Intro: Using Guile as an extension language.
• Programming Overview: An overview of Guile programming.
• Data Representation: Data representation in Guile.
• GH: The deprecated GH interface.

  Part IV: Guile API Reference

• Reference Intro: Introduction to the Guile API reference.
• API Overview: Overview of the Guile API.
• Simple Data Types: Numbers, strings, booleans and so on.
• Compound Data Types: Data types for holding other data.
• 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: Configuration, features and runtime options.
• Translation: Support for translating other languages.
• Debugging: Internal debugging interface.
• Deprecated: Features that are planned to disappear.

  Part V: Guile Modules

• SLIB: Using the SLIB Scheme library.
• POSIX: POSIX system calls and networking.
• SRFI Support: Support for various SRFIs.
• Readline Support: Module for using the readline library.
• Value History: Maintaining a value history in the REPL.
• Pretty Printing: Nicely formatting Scheme objects for output.
• Formatted Output: The format procedure.
• Rx Regexps: The Rx regular expression library.
• Expect: Controlling interactive programs with Guile.
• The Scheme shell (scsh): Using scsh interfaces in Guile.

  Indices

• Concept Index:
• Procedure Index:
• Variable Index:
• Type Index:
• R5RS Index: