Guile Reference Manual

$Id: guile-ref.texi,v 1.22 1998/04/29 21:29:03 rosalia Exp $

For use with Guile 1.2a

• Introduction
• Running Guile Interactively
• Guile Scripts
  • The Top of a script file
  • Invoking Guile
  • The Meta Switch
  • Scripting Examples
• Linking Programs With Guile
  • Guile Initialization Functions
  • A Sample Guile Main Program
• Writing Guile Modules
• Extensions to Scheme
  • Guile options interface
    • General option interface
    • Reader options
    • Printing options
    • Evaluator options
    • Debugger options
    • Examples of option use
• SLIB
  • JACAL
• Evaluation
• Lists
• Data Structures
  • Records
  • Structures
    • Structure Concepts
    • Structure Layout
    • Structure Basics
    • Vtables
  • Arrays
    • Conventional Arrays
    • Array Mapping
    • Uniform Array
    • Bit Vectors
  • Association Lists and Hash Tables
    • Dictionary Types
    • Association Lists
    • Hash Tables
• Strings
  • String Fun
  • Shared Substrings
  • Read Only Strings
• Characters
• Property Lists
• Ports
  • File Ports
  • Soft Ports
  • String Ports
  • Closing Ports
  • Port Operations
  • Extended I/O (fseek and line read/write)
• Bitwise Operations
• Regular Expressions
  • Regexp Functions
  • Match Structures
  • Backslash Escapes
  • Rx Interface
• Keywords
• Exceptions
• Modules
  • Scheme and modules
  • The Guile module system
• Module Internals
  • First-class Variables
  • First-class Modules
  • Dynamic Libraries
• Dynamic Linking from Marius
  • Low level dynamic linking
  • Putting Compiled Code into Modules
  • Dynamic Linking and Compiled Code Modules
• Dynamic Wind
• Threads and Dynamic Roots
  • Dynamic Roots
  • Threads
    • Low level thread primitives
    • Higher level thread procedures
• Reflection
  • eval
  • Tag Values
• Weak References
  • Weak key hashes
  • Weak vectors
• Garbage Collection
• Configuration Data
• Internal Debugging Interface
• POSIX Interface Conventions
• Ports and File Descriptors
• File System
• User Information
• Time
• Processes
• Signals
• Terminals and Ptys
• Pipes
• Networking
  • Networking Databases
  • Network sockets
• System Identification
• Locales
• Expect
• The Scheme shell (scsh)
• Tcl/Tk Interface
• A Portable C to Scheme Interface
• gh preliminaries
• Data types and constants defined by gh
• Starting and controlling the interpreter
• Error messages
• Executing Scheme code
• Defining new Scheme procedures in C
• Converting data between C and Scheme
  • C to Scheme
  • Scheme to C
• Type predicates
• Equality predicates
• Memory allocation and garbage collection
• Calling Scheme procedures from C
• Mixing gh and scm APIs
• Scheme data representation
• Relationship between Scheme and C functions
• I/O internals
• libguile error handling
• snarfing
• Obtaining and Installing Guile
  • The Basic Guile Package
  • Packages not shipped with Guile
• Reporting Bugs
• Internals
  • Symbols
• debugger user interface
  • Single-Step
  • Trace
  • Backtrace
  • Stacks and Frames
• Concept Index
• Procedure Index
• Variable Index
• Type Index

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