5.13 Reading and Evaluating Scheme Code

This chapter describes Guile functions that are concerned with reading, loading and evaluating Scheme code at run time.

• Scheme Syntax: Standard and extended Scheme syntax.
• Scheme Read: Reading Scheme code.
• Fly Evaluation: Procedures for on the fly evaluation.
• Loading: Loading Scheme code from file.
• Delayed Evaluation: Postponing evaluation until it is needed.
• Local Evaluation: Evaluation in a local environment.
• Evaluator Behaviour: Modifying Guile's evaluator.