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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.

• API Overview:  Overview of the Guile API.
• Deprecation:  Obsolete back-compatible APIs.
• The SCM Type:  The fundamental data type for C code.
• Initialization:  Initializing Guile.
• Snarfing Macros:  Macros for snarfing initialization actions.
• Simple Data Types:  Numbers, strings, booleans and so on.
• Compound Data Types:  Data types for holding other data.
• Smobs:  Defining new data types in C.
• Procedures:  Procedures.
• Macros:  Extending the syntax of Scheme.
• Utility Functions:  General utility functions.
• Binding Constructs:  Definitions and variable bindings.
• Control Mechanisms:  Controlling the flow of program execution.
• Input and Output:  Ports, reading and writing.
• Regular Expressions:  Pattern matching and substitution.
• LALR(1) Parsing:  Generating LALR(1) parsers.
• Read/Load/Eval/Compile:  Reading and evaluating Scheme code.
• Memory Management:  Memory management and garbage collection.
• Modules:  Designing reusable code libraries.
• Foreign Function Interface:  Interacting with C procedures and data.
• Scheduling:  Threads, mutexes, asyncs and dynamic roots.
• Options and Config:  Configuration, features and runtime options.
• Other Languages:  Emacs Lisp, ECMAScript, and more.
• Internationalization:  Support for gettext, etc.
• Debugging:  Debugging infrastructure and Scheme interface.
• Code Coverage:  Gathering code coverage data.

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