srfi/README

   1 This directory includes most of Guile's SRFI support.       -*- text -*-
   2
   3 For more details about what SRFI means, and what the various numbers
   4 stand for, please refer to the SRFI homepage at
   5
   6   http://srfi.schemers.org
   7
   8 The following SRFIs are supported (as of 2001-06-06 -- 'martin):
   9
  10 SRFI-0: cond-expand
  11
  12   Supported by default, no module needs to get used.
  13
  14 SRFI-1: List Library
  15
  16   A full toolbox of list processing procedures.  (use-modules (srfi
  17   srfi-1)) will make them available for use.
  18
  19 SRFI-2: and-let*
  20
  21   (use-modules (srfi srfi-2)) to make and-let* available.
  22
  23 SRFI-6: open-input-string, open-output-string and get-output-string
  24
  25   (use-modules (srfi srfi-6)) to make these available. (Currently,
  26   these procedures are available without using the module, but the
  27   procedures might be factored out of the core library in the
  28   future.)
  29
  30 SRFI-8: receive
  31
  32   (use-modules (srfi srfi-8)) to make receive available.
  33
  34 SRFI-9: define-record-type
  35
  36   A mechanism for defining record types.  (use-modules (srfi srfi-9))
  37   makes this syntactic form available.
  38
  39 SRFI-10: #,()
  40
  41   The hash-comma reader extension.  (use-modules (srfi srfi-10))
  42   activates the extension.
  43
  44 SRFI-11: let-values and let-values*
  45
  46   Syntactic extensions for handling multiple values.  (use-modules
  47   (srfi srfi-11)) makes these syntactic forms available.
  48
  49 SRFI-13: string library
  50
  51   A lot of (more or less) useful string processing procedures.
  52   (use-modules (srfi srfi-13)) loads the procedures.
  53
  54 SRFI-14: character-set library
  55
  56   Character-set library.  (use-modules (srfi srfi-14)) loads the
  57   procedures and standard variables.
  58
  59 SRFI-16: case-lambda
  60
  61   Syntactic form which permits writing functions acting different
  62   according to the number of arguments passed.  (use-modules (srfi
  63   srfi-16)) makes this syntactic form available.
  64
  65 SRFI-17: Generalized set!
  66
  67   Guile supports generalized set! by default, but this module makes it
  68   fully compliant to the SRFI.  (use-modules (srfi srfi-17)) loads the
  69   procedures.
  70
  71 SRFI-19: Time Data Types and Procedures
  72
  73   A lot of data types and procedures for dealing with times and
  74   dates.  (use-modules (srfi srfi-19)) loads the procedures.
  75
  76 SRFI-23: Error reporting mechanism (draft)
  77
  78   This SRFI is still in draft status, but Guile fully supports it
  79   already.  No need to load any module.