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6.17 Reading and Evaluating Scheme Code

This chapter describes Guile functions that are concerned with reading, loading, evaluating, and compiling Scheme code at run time.

Scheme Syntax: Standard and extended Scheme syntax.
Scheme Read: Reading Scheme code.
Scheme Write: Writing Scheme values to a port.
Fly Evaluation: Procedures for on the fly evaluation.
Compilation: How to compile Scheme files and procedures.
Loading: Loading Scheme code from file.
Character Encoding of Source Files: Loading non-ASCII Scheme code from file.
Delayed Evaluation: Postponing evaluation until it is needed.