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