Guile Reference Manual: Utility Functions

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6.11 General Utility Functions

This chapter contains information about procedures which are not cleanly tied to a specific data type. Because of their wide range of applications, they are collected in a utility chapter.

• Equality: When are two values ‘the same’?

• Object Properties: A modern interface to object properties.

• Sorting: Sort utility procedures.

• Copying: Copying deep structures.

• General Conversion: Converting objects to strings.

• Hooks: User-customizable event lists.