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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.

• Overview of the Guile API
• Deprecation
• The SCM Type
• Initializing Guile
• Snarfing Macros
• Data Types
• Procedures
• Macros
• General Utility Functions
• Definitions and Variable Bindings
• Controlling the Flow of Program Execution
• Input and Output
• Regular Expressions
• LALR(1) Parsing
• PEG Parsing
• Reading and Evaluating Scheme Code
• Memory Management and Garbage Collection
• Modules
• Foreign Function Interface
• Foreign Objects
• Smobs
• Threads, Mutexes, Asyncs and Dynamic Roots
• Configuration, Features and Runtime Options
• Support for Other Languages
• Support for Internationalization
• Debugging Infrastructure
• Code Coverage Reports