~ chicken-core (master) /manual/Included modules

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  4== Included modules
  5
  6The CHICKEN system comes shipped with several modules.  This section
  7of the manual provides a reference guide to all the modules that are
  8part of a standard installation.  On top of these, you can install
  9additional modules through the [[Extensions|eggs]] system.
 10
 11Note that toplevel code that is not contained in a module has by
 12default all exports of the [[Module scheme|scheme]], 
 13[[Module (chicken base)|(chicken base)]] and 
 14[[Module (chicken syntax)|(chicken syntax)]]  available.
 15
 16* [[Module scheme]] : Compatibility module for CHICKEN 5 code
 17* [[Module (scheme r4rs)]] : Standard procedures and syntax of R4RS Scheme
 18* [[Module (scheme r5rs)]] : Standard procedures and syntax of R5RS Scheme
 19* [[Module (scheme base)]] : R7RS evaluation of forms
 20* [[Module (scheme case-lambda)]] : R7RS {{case-lambda}} form
 21* [[Module (scheme char)]] : R7RS operations on characters
 22* [[Module (scheme complex)]] : R7RS operations on complex number
 23* [[Module (scheme cxr)]] : R7RS extended {{c..r}} procedures
 24* [[Module (scheme file)]] : R7RS file procedures
 25* [[Module (scheme eval)]] : R7RS evaluation of forms
 26* [[Module (scheme inexact)]] : R7RS operations on inexact numbers
 27* [[Module (scheme lazy)]] : R7RS promises and delayed evaluation of forms
 28* [[Module (scheme load)]] : R7RS {{load}} procedure
 29* [[Module (scheme process-context)]] : R7RS procedures for interacting with the environment
 30* [[Module (scheme read)]] : R7RS {{read}} procedure
 31* [[Module (scheme repl)]] : R7RS {{interaction-environment}} procedure
 32* [[Module (scheme time)]] : R7RS time procedures
 33* [[Module (scheme write)]] : R7RS expression printing
 34* [[Module (chicken base)]] : Core procedures and macros
 35* [[Module (chicken bitwise)]] : Bitwise manipulation on integers
 36* [[Module (chicken bytevector)]] : Unstructured byte data
 37* [[Module (chicken condition)]] : Raising and handling of exceptions, manipulation of condition objects
 38* [[Module (chicken continuation)]] : Feeley's "a better API for continuations"
 39* [[Module (chicken csi)]] : Features specific to {{csi}}
 40* [[Module (chicken errno)]] : Accessing the C "errno" variable
 41* [[Module (chicken eval)]] : Evaluation hooks
 42* [[Module (chicken file)]] : High-level API for file system manipulations
 43* [[Module (chicken file posix)]] : POSIX-specific file manipulations
 44* [[Module (chicken fixnum)]] : Operations on "fixnums" (small integers)
 45* [[Module (chicken flonum)]] : Operations on "flonums" (floating-point numbers)
 46* [[Module (chicken foreign)]] : Accessing C and C++ code and data
 47* [[Module (chicken format)]] : String formatting procedures
 48* [[Module (chicken gc)]] : Interacting with the garbage collector
 49* [[Module (chicken io)]] : Reading and writing to files and other ports
 50* [[Module (chicken irregex)]] : Regular expressions
 51* [[Module (chicken keyword)]] : Operations on keyword objects
 52* [[Module (chicken load)]] : Loading code from files
 53* [[Module (chicken locative)]] : Accessing pointer-like location objects
 54* [[Module (chicken memory)]] : Low-level memory operations
 55* [[Module (chicken memory representation)]] : Low-level operations on the memory representation of Scheme objects
 56* [[Module (chicken module)]] : Defining modules
 57* [[Module (chicken number-vector)]] : Homogenous numeric vectors
 58* [[Module (chicken pathname)]] : Manipulating path names
 59* [[Module (chicken platform)]] : Information about the platform your code is running on
 60* [[Module (chicken plist)]] : Symbol property lists
 61* [[Module (chicken port)]] : Manipulating port objects
 62* [[Module (chicken pretty-print)]] : Pretty-printing s-expressions
 63* [[Module (chicken process)]] : Starting subprocesses and communicating with them
 64* [[Module (chicken process signal)]] : Sending and receiving POSIX process signals
 65* [[Module (chicken process-context)]] : Accessing the context (arguments, environment etc) of the current process
 66* [[Module (chicken process-context posix)]] : POSIX-specific context access
 67* [[Module (chicken random)]] : Generating pseudo-random number
 68* [[Module (chicken read-syntax)]] : Creating syntactic extensions to the reader
 69* [[Module (chicken repl)]] : Creating a Read-Eval-Print Loop
 70* [[Module (chicken sort)]] : Sorting lists and vectors
 71* [[Module (chicken string)]] : String operations
 72* [[Module (chicken syntax)]] : Creating syntactic extensions (macros)
 73* [[Module (chicken tcp)]] : Connecting over the network via TCP
 74* [[Module (chicken time)]] : Fetching information about the current time
 75* [[Module (chicken time posix)]] : Manipulating POSIX time
 76* [[Module (chicken type)]] : Defining and using static typing information
 77* [[Module srfi-4]] : The subset of [[Module (chicken number-vector)]] specified by SRFI-4
 78
 79In addition to the core modules listed above, the following SRFI modules can be
 80imported. These provide access to identifiers described by the SRFI, but which
 81may already be defined by other parts of CHICKEN's standard library.
 82
 83* Module srfi-2 : AND-LET*: an AND with local bindings, a guarded LET* special form
 84* Module srfi-8 : receive: Binding to multiple values
 85* Module srfi-10 : #, external form
 86* Module srfi-12 : Exception Handling
 87* Module srfi-15 : Syntax for dynamic scoping
 88* Module srfi-16 : Syntax for procedures of variable arity
 89* Module srfi-17 : Generalized set!
 90* Module srfi-26 : Notation for Specializing Parameters without Currying
 91* Module srfi-28 : Basic Format Strings
 92* Module srfi-31 : A special form `rec' for recursive evaluation
 93* Module srfi-55 : require-extension
 94* Module srfi-88 : Keyword objects
 95
 96Other SRFI features may be supported but do not correspond to any importable module.
 97Refer to {{cond-expand}} for a list of non-module SRFI feature identifiers.
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