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.

6.1 Overview of the Guile API
6.2 Deprecation		Obsolete back-compatible APIs.
6.3 The SCM Type		The fundamental data type for C code.
6.4 Initializing Guile
6.5 Snarfing Macros		Macros for snarfing initialization actions.
6.6 Simple Generic Data Types		Numbers, strings, booleans and so on.
6.7 Compound Data Types		Data types for holding other data.
6.8 Smobs		Defining new data types in C.
6.9 Procedures
6.10 Macros		Extending the syntax of Scheme.
6.11 General Utility Functions		General utility functions.
6.12 Definitions and Variable Bindings		Definitions and variable bindings.
6.13 Controlling the Flow of Program Execution		Controlling the flow of program execution.
6.14 Input and Output		Ports, reading and writing.
6.15 Regular Expressions		Pattern matching and substitution.
6.16 LALR(1) Parsing		Generating LALR(1) parsers.
6.17 Reading and Evaluating Scheme Code		Reading and evaluating Scheme code.
6.18 Memory Management and Garbage Collection		Memory management and garbage collection.
6.19 Modules		Designing reusable code libraries.
6.20 Foreign Function Interface		Interacting with C procedures and data.
6.21 Threads, Mutexes, Asyncs and Dynamic Roots		Threads, mutexes, asyncs and dynamic roots.
6.22 Configuration, Features and Runtime Options		Configuration, features and runtime options.
6.23 Support for Other Languages		Emacs Lisp, ECMAScript, and more.
6.24 Support for Internationalization		Support for gettext, etc.
6.25 Debugging Infrastructure		Debugging infrastructure and Scheme interface.
6.26 Code Coverage Reports		Gathering code coverage data.

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