[Gllug] Re: [Fsf-friends] RE[fsug-calicut] Help (LISP) !

M.P.Anand Babu ab at gnu.org.in
03 Nov 2002 18:08:10 -0800


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| Paul Roberts <sakar@stelo.uklinux.net> writes:
| > Is Guile usable on its own? I thought it was a library designed to
| > embed the language into other applications.
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Yes absolutely.
Guile can be used independently as a Scheme interpreter as well as
an extension library.
Just type "guile" at the prompt, you will get the read-eval-print
loop.

To make scripts executable, add this like to the beginning of the
script and do chmod +x
----->
#!/usr/bin/guile \
-s
!#
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Unlike other scripting languages, guile lets your have command-line
arguments spawn across multiple lines, thats  why you have #! and !#
interface.

hello.scm:
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#!/usr/bin/guile \
-s
!#
(display "Hello GNU")
(newline)
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Hope this helps

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