* Extended documentation on exceptions.
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c2dc2842 1This directory contains documentation on the Guile core. -*-text-*-
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3The documentation consists of the following manuals.
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5- The Guile Tutorial (guile-tut.texi) contains a tutorial introduction
6 to using Guile.
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8- The Guile Reference Manual (guile.texi) contains (or is intended to
9 contain) reference documentation on all aspects of Guile.
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11- The GOOPS Manual (goops.texi) contains both tutorial-style and
12 reference documentation for using GOOPS, Guile's Object Oriented
13 Programming System.
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15- The Revised^4 and Revised^5 Reports on the Algorithmic Language
16 Scheme (r4rs.texi and r5rs.texi).
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18Please be aware that this is all very much work in progress (apart
19from the Revised Reports). Bug reports and contributions are
20welcome!
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22The file `oldfmt.c' contains a function which can be used by
23application writers to support both old-style and new-style error
24format strings.
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26The `sources' directory includes some stuff relevant to the Guile
27reference manual, and which may eventually be folded in to it. It's
28not immediately relevant, however, which is why it's not in this
29directory.