Guile Reference Manual: Control Mechanisms

Warning: This is the manual of the legacy Guile 2.0 series. You may want to read the manual of the current stable series instead.

See Control Flow for a discussion of how the more general control flow of Scheme affects C code.

• begin: Sequencing and splicing.

• Conditionals: If, when, unless, case, and cond.

• and or: Conditional evaluation of a sequence.

• while do: Iteration mechanisms.

• Prompts: Composable, delimited continuations.

• Continuations: Non-composable continuations.

• Multiple Values: Returning and accepting multiple values.

• Exceptions: Throwing and catching exceptions.

• Error Reporting: Procedures for signaling errors.

• Dynamic Wind: Dealing with non-local entrance/exit.

• Handling Errors: How to handle errors in C code.

• Continuation Barriers: Protection from non-local control flow.