NAME

       gsi - Gambit Scheme Interpreter and Compiler

SYNOPSIS

       gsi [ -:arg,... ] [ -f ] [ -v ] [[-] [ -e ] [ file ]]...
       gsc [options] [files]

       gsc-script, gsi-script, scheme-ieee-1178-1990, scheme-r4rs, scheme-srfi-0, six, and six-script: currently
       synonyms for gsi.

       scheme-r5rs is registered in the Debian alternatives system and can be configured to point at gsi.

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page briefly documents the gsi and gsc commands.

       The Gambit programming system is a full implementation of the Scheme language which conforms to the R4RS,
       R5RS,  and  IEEE Scheme standards.  It consists of two main programs: gsi, the Gambit Scheme interpreter,
       and gsc, the Gambit Scheme  compiler.   The  interpreter  provides  an  interactive  environment  with  a
       debugger, while the compiler can produce stand-alone executables or modules which can be linked or loaded
       at  run  time.   Interpreted  code  and  compiled code can be freely mixed.  C modules can be linked with
       Scheme modules.

       The interpreter is executed in interactive mode when no file or `-'  or  `-e'  option  is  given  on  the
       command  line.   When  at  least one file or `-' or `-e' option is present the interpreter is executed in
       batch mode.

       Entering ,q or (exit) at the interpreter's command prompt will exit the interpreter.

       Entering ,? at the interpreter's command prompt will display a list of special commands.

       In batch mode the command line arguments denote files to be  loaded,  REPL  interactions  to  start  (`-'
       option),  and  expressions  to  be  evaluated  (`-e'  option).  Note that the `-' and `-e' options can be
       interspersed with the files on the command line and can occur multiple times.  The interpreter  processes
       the  command  line  arguments  from left to right, loading files with the `load' procedure and evaluating
       expressions with the `eval' procedure in the global interaction environment.  After this  processing  the
       interpreter exits.

       gsc-cc-o.bat  is  a  script called by gsc to generate object files during compilation.  It takes its data
       from environment variables and is not intended for user interaction.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.  For a complete description, see the Info files.

       -      Initiate a REPL at this point. (Continue by issuing a ,c command at the interpreter prompt)

       -:     Comma separated list of run-time options

       -e     Evaluate an expression.

       -f     Skip initialization file.

       -v     Show version of program.

SEE ALSO

       The documentation for these programs is arguably too extensive to cover with man pages.  Only the  common
       command  line  options are given here.  The programs are documented fully in Gambit, available on-line at
       the Gambit Homepage.  Once package gambdoc is installed, this 200+ page document  is  available  via  the
       Info system (info gambit), in html via doc-base, or as files in /usr/share/doc/gambit (html, pdf, txt).

       dhelp(1), gcc(1), update-alternatives(8)

COPYRIGHT

       Gambit is Copyright (c) 1994-2015 by Marc Feeley, all rights reserved.

       Gambit is released under a dual LGPL and Apache 2 license.
       For further information refer to /usr/share/doc/gambit/copyright.

       This manual page is
       Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Marc Feeley and Kurt B. Kaiser <kbk@shore.net>
       Released under the same license as Gambit.

AUTHOR

       Gambit was written by Marc Feeley <gambit@iro.umontreal.ca>.

       Homepage: http://gambitscheme.org

4.4.3                                             June 3, 2009                                        GSI/GSC(1)