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6.18 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.
• Load Paths  Where Guile looks for code.
• Character Encoding of Source Files  Loading non-ASCII Scheme code from file.
• Delayed Evaluation  Postponing evaluation until it is needed.
• Local Evaluation  Evaluation in a local lexical environment.
• Local Inclusion  Compile-time inclusion of one file in another.
• Sandboxed Evaluation  Evaluation with limited capabilities.
• REPL Servers  Serving a REPL over a socket.
• Cooperative REPL Servers  REPL server for single-threaded applications.