@setfilename guile.info
@settitle Guile Reference Manual
@set guile
-@set MANUAL-EDITION 1.1
+@set MANUAL-REVISION 1
@c %**end of header
@include version.texi
@include lib-version.texi
+@include effective-version.texi
@copying
-This reference manual documents Guile, GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent
-Language for Extensions. This is edition @value{MANUAL-EDITION}
-corresponding to Guile @value{VERSION}.
+This manual documents Guile version @value{VERSION}.
-Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free
+Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009 Free
Software Foundation.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts being ``A GNU
Manual,'' and with the Back-Cover Text ``You are free to copy and
modify this GNU Manual.''. A copy of the license is included in the
@sp 10
@comment The title is printed in a large font.
@title Guile Reference Manual
-@subtitle Edition @value{MANUAL-EDITION}, for use with Guile @value{VERSION}
+@subtitle Edition @value{EDITION}, revision @value{MANUAL-REVISION}, for use with Guile @value{VERSION}
@c @subtitle $Id: guile.texi,v 1.49 2008-03-19 22:51:23 ossau Exp $
@c See preface.texi for the list of authors
* Guile Modules::
+* GOOPS::
+
* Guile Implementation::
* Autoconf Support::
@include scsh.texi
@include scheme-debugging.texi
+@include goops.texi
+
@node Guile Implementation
@chapter Guile Implementation
-Things that aren't necessary to know to use guile, but that are
-interesting once you decide that Guile is interesting.
-
-Also Schemers as closet compiler writers.
+At some point, after one has been programming in Scheme for some time,
+another level of Scheme comes into view: its implementation. Knowledge
+of how Scheme can be implemented turns out to be necessary to become
+an expert hacker. As Peter Norvig notes in his retrospective on
+PAIP@footnote{PAIP is the common abbreviation for @cite{Paradigms of
+Artificial Intelligence Programming}, an old but still useful text on
+Lisp. Norvig's retrospective sums up the lessons of PAIP, and can be
+found at @uref{http://norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html}.}, ``The expert Lisp
+programmer eventually develops a good `efficiency model'.''
+
+By this Norvig means that over time, the Lisp hacker eventually
+develops an understanding of how much her code ``costs'' in terms of
+space and time.
+
+This chapter describes Guile as an implementation of Scheme: its
+history, how it represents and evaluates its data, and its compiler.
+This knowledge can help you to make that step from being one who is
+merely familiar with Scheme to being a real hacker.
@menu
* History:: A brief history of Guile.
straightforward, in general terms.
* The Libguile Runtime Environment:: Low-level details on Guile's C
runtime library.
-* A Virtual Machine for Guile:: Foo.
-* Compiling to the Virtual Machine:: Bar.
+* A Virtual Machine for Guile:: How compiled procedures work.
+* Compiling to the Virtual Machine:: Not as hard as you might think.
@end menu
@include history.texi