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GUILE(1)		     General Commands Manual			GUILE(1)

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 imple-
     ments 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

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

     --version
	    Display guile version and exit.

     --emacsEnable 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  sepa-
	    rated  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 oc-
     curs.  For example, the following .guile activates guile's readline  inter-
     face:

	 (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 lan-
     guage.

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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