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NAME

       guile - a Scheme interpreter

SYNOPSIS

       guile  [-q]  [-ds]  [--help]  [--version]  [--emacs]  [--debug]  [-l FILE] [-e FUNCTION] [] [-c EXPR] [-s
       SCRIPT] [--]

DESCRIPTION

       GNU Guile is an  interpreter  for  the  Scheme  programming  language.   It  implements  R5RS,  providing
       additional  features  necessary  for  real-world  use.   It  is  extremely simple to embed guile into a C
       program, calling C from Scheme and Scheme from C.  Guile's design makes it very suitable for  use  as  an
       "extension" or "glue" language, but it also works well as a stand-alone scheme development environment.

       The  guile  executable  itself  provides  a  stand-alone  interpreter  for  scheme  programs,  for either
       interactive use or executing scripts.

       This manpage provides only brief instruction in invoking guile from the command line.  Please consult the
       guile  info  documentation  (type  info guile at a command prompt) for more information.  There is also a
       tutorial (info guile-tut) available.

OPTIONS

       -l     Load scheme source code from file.

       -e     After reading script, apply FUNCTION to command-line arguments

       -ds    do -s SCRIPT at this point (note that this argument must be used in conjuction with -s)

       --help Describe command line options and exit

       --debug
              Start guile with debugging evaluator and backtraces enabled (useful for debugging guile scripts)

       --version
              Display guile version and exit.

       --emacs
              Enable emacs protocol for use from within emacs (experimental)

       --     Stop argument processing, start guile in interactive mode.

       -c     Stop argument processing, evaluate EXPR as a scheme expression.

       -s     Load Scheme source from SCRIPT-FILE and execute as a script.

ENVIRONMENT

       GUILE_LOAD_PATH
              If $GUILE_LOAD_PATH is set, its value is used to agument the path to search for scheme files  when
              loading.   It  should  be  a  colon  separated  list of directories which will be prepended to the
              default %load-path.

FILES

       ~/.guile is a guile script that is executed  before  any  other  processing  occurs.   For  example,  the
       following .guile activates guile's readline interface:

           (use-modules (ice-9 readline))
           (activate-readline)

SEE ALSO

       The  full  documentation for guile is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and guile programs are
       properly installed at your site, the command

              info guile

       should give you access to the complete manual.

       http://www.schemers.org provides a general introduction to the Scheme language.

AUTHORS

       Robert Merkel <rgmerk@mira.net> wrote this manpage.  Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> has added to it.

       guile is GNU software.  Guile is originally based on Aubrey Jaffer's SCM interpreter, and is the work  of
       many individuals.

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