Guile Reference Manual: API Reference

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6 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.

• Deprecation: Obsolete back-compatible APIs.

• 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: Procedures.

• Macros: Extending the syntax of Scheme.

• 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.

• Regular Expressions: Pattern matching and substitution.

• LALR(1) Parsing: Generating LALR(1) parsers.

• Read/Load/Eval/Compile: Reading and evaluating Scheme code.

• Memory Management: Memory management and garbage collection.

• Modules: Designing reusable code libraries.

• Foreign Function Interface: Interacting with C procedures and data.

• Scheduling: Threads, mutexes, asyncs and dynamic roots.

• Options and Config: Configuration, features and runtime options.

• Other Languages: Emacs Lisp, ECMAScript, and more.

• Internationalization: Support for gettext, etc.

• Debugging: Debugging infrastructure and Scheme interface.

• Code Coverage: Gathering code coverage data.

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