Short Table of Contents

1. The Guile License
2. Layout of this Manual
3. Conventions used in this Manual
4. What is Guile?
5. A Whirlwind Tour
6. Obtaining and Installing Guile
7. Reporting Bugs
Part II: Writing and Running Guile Scheme
8. Guile's Implementation of Scheme
9. Guile Scripting
10. Handling Command Line Options and Arguments
11. Debugging Features
12. Autoconf Support
13. Miscellaneous Tools
14. Basic Ideas in Scheme
15. Further Reading
Part III: Guile as an Extension Language
16. Using Guile as an Extension Language
17. An Overview of Guile Programming
18. Data Representation in Guile
19. GH: A Portable C to Scheme Interface
Part IV: Guile API Reference
20. Overview of the Guile API
21. Simple Generic Data Types
22. Compound Data Types
23. Procedures and Macros
24. General Utility Functions
25. Definitions and Variable Bindings
26. Controlling the Flow of Program Execution
27. Input and Output
28. Reading and Evaluating Scheme Code
29. Memory Management and Garbage Collection
30. Objects
31. Modules
32. Threads, Mutexes, Asyncs and Dynamic Roots
33. Runtime Options and Configuration
34. Support for Translating Other Languages
35. Debugging Infrastructure
36. Deprecated
37. SLIB
38. POSIX System Calls and Networking
39. SRFI Support Modules
40. Readline Support
41. Value History
42. Pretty Printing
43. Formatted Output
44. The Rx Regular Expression Library
45. Expect
46. The Scheme shell (scsh)
Concept Index
Procedure Index
Variable Index
Type Index
R5RS Index