Guile User Manual

For use with Cygnus Guile 1.0

Last updated 6 July 1996

• Introduction - what is Guile
  • What are scripting and extension languages
  • History of Guile and its motivations
  • How to characterize Guile
• How to get and install Guile
• How to start up guile - a quick tour
  • Invoking guile and ggl
  • Guile as a basic scheme interpreter
  • Using Tk widgets
  • Applets in Guile
• Using Guile
  • Using Guile to write Guile programs
    • Hello World
    • A bunch of operations in scheme
    • Using recursion to process lists
    • Processing matrices
  • Using Guile to write Guile applets
  • Some examples of Guile applets
    • learn-applet-1.scm
    • Drawing a matrix on a canvas
  • A reflection on Guile applets and SurfIt!
• Guile in a library - using libguile.a
  • Two world views
  • What is libguile
  • How to get started with libguile
  • More interesting programming with libguile
    • learn1.c
    • c_builtins.h
    • c_builtins.c
    • What learn1 is doing
    • Compiling and running learn1
  • Further examples
• More on the Guile interface to Tk
  • What you need to use Tk
  • Creating a widget
  • Scheme callbacks
  • Sending a command to a widget
• Some other features of Guile
  • Goonix - the Guile interface to Posix
  • Threads in Guile
    • What are threads
    • Configuring Guile to use threads
    • Examples of scheme threads
  • The Guile interface to OpenGL
  • Guile exceptions - catch and throw
  • Miscellaneous features
    • Regular expression support
    • Guile PLUGIN system
    • Dynamic roots
• Internationalization Features in Guile
  • Building Guile with Internationalization Features
  • Character and String representations
  • External Character Encodings
  • New Guile Scheme variables
  • Changes to existing Guile Scheme commands
  • New Guile Scheme commands
  • New libguile procedures
• Where to find more Guile/scheme resources
  • Online resources
  • Books and papers
  • Other documents shipped with Guile
• Bug reports and hackarounds for various Guile releases
  • Installation problems with guile-r1.0
  • Installation problems with guile-1.0b1
  • Installation problems with guile-r0.3
  • Execution problems with guile-r0.3
• Concept Index
• Procedure and Variable Index

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