Learning Guile

This repository contains the exercises I have been doing for myself to learn GNU Guile.

The code is heavily inspired by the Tortoise tutorial.

All exercises use autoconf to build. See the example in the guile manual.

01 - Compiling, linking and REPL

My first exercise was to setup building with autotools and to create a simple C program which links guile and can execute Scheme code.

02 - Separate script file

In the second exercise, we invoke Scheme code from a separate script file.

03 - Call C functions from the script file

In the third exercise, we add a function in the C program and call that function from the script file.

04 - SRFI-9 Records

In the fourth exercise, we add SRFI-9 Records into the script file.

05 - Using records from C

In the fifth exercise, we call functions generated by the record definition from the C program.

Extras

nn-references

Standalone script to test how references work in Scheme / Guile.

nn-promises

Standalone script to test how promises work in Scheme / Guile.

nn-promises

Standalone script to test how testing works in Scheme / Guile. We use SRFI-64 to enable testing.

nn-exceptions

Standalone script to test how exceptions work in Scheme. As far as I understand, this type of exception raising and handling is specific to Guile Scheme.

nn-json

Standalone script to test how guile-json works.

nn-reading-files

Read a file in 3 different ways.

nn-association-lists

Add a function that compares if two association lists are equivalent with each other. This is distinct from equal? in that equal? wants the order to be the same for two alists to be equivalent. Instead, our function disregards order and only cares about contents.