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6.6 Data Types ¶

Guile’s data types form a powerful built-in library of representations and functionality that you can apply to your problem domain. This chapter surveys the data types built-in to Guile, from the simple to the complex.

• Booleans
• Numerical data types
• Characters
• Character Sets
• Strings
• Symbols
• Keywords
• Pairs
• Lists
• Vectors
• Bit Vectors
• Bytevectors
• Arrays
• VLists
• Record Overview
• SRFI-9 Records
• Records
• Structures
• Dictionary Types
• Association Lists
• VList-Based Hash Lists or “VHashes”
• Hash Tables
• Other Types