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@page
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@node Scheme Intro
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@chapter Introduction to Guile Scheme
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Guile's core language is Scheme, which is specified and described in the
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series of reports known as @dfn{RnRS}. @dfn{RnRS} is shorthand for the
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@iftex
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@dfn{Revised$^n$ Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme}.
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@end iftex
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@ifnottex
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@dfn{Revised^n Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme}.
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@end ifnottex
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The current latest revision of RnRS is version 5
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(@pxref{Top,R5RS,,r5rs}), and Guile 1.4 is fully compliant with the
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Scheme specification in this revision.
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But Guile, like most Scheme implementations, also goes beyond R5RS in
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many ways, because R5RS does not give specifications (or even
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recommendations) regarding many issues that are important in practical
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programming. Some of the areas where Guile extends R5RS are:
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@itemize @bullet
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@item
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Guile's interactive documentation system
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@item
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Guile's support for POSIX-compliant network programming
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@item
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GOOPS -- Guile's framework for object oriented programming.
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@end itemize
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@menu
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* Scheme Layout:: The layout of this part of the manual.
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@end menu
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@node Scheme Layout
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@section Layout
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This part of the reference manual documents all of Guile's core
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Scheme-level language and features in functionally-related groups.
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Where a particular section of the manual includes both R5RS-compliant
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parts and Guile-specific extensions, the text indicates which parts of
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the documentation describe R5RS behaviour and which parts describe Guile
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extensions.
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For a quick way of identifying the parts of Guile that implement
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R5RS-compliant features, see the R5RS index: @ref{R5RS Index}.
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@c Local Variables:
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@c TeX-master: "guile.texi"
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@c End:
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