API Reference - Guile Reference Manual

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5 API Reference

Guile provides an application programming interface (API) to developers in two core languages: Scheme and C. This part of the manual contains reference documentation for all of the functionality that is available through both Scheme and C interfaces.

API Overview: Overview of the Guile API.
The SCM Type: The fundamental data type for C code.
Initialization: Initializing Guile.
Snarfing Macros: Macros for snarfing initialization actions.
Simple Data Types: Numbers, strings, booleans and so on.
Compound Data Types: Data types for holding other data.
Smobs: Defining new data types in C.
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.
Internationalization: Support for gettext, etc.
Debugging: Internal debugging interface.
GH: The deprecated GH interface.