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This chapter describes those of Guile’s simple data types which are primarily used for their role as items of generic data. By simple we mean data types that are not primarily used as containers to hold other data — i.e. pairs, lists, vectors and so on. For the documentation of such compound data types, see Compound Data Types.
• Booleans: | True/false values. | |
• Numbers: | Numerical data types. | |
• Characters: | Single characters. | |
• Character Sets: | Sets of characters. | |
• Strings: | Sequences of characters. | |
• Bytevectors: | Sequences of bytes. | |
• Symbols: | Symbols. | |
• Keywords: | Self-quoting, customizable display keywords. | |
• Other Types: | "Functionality-centric" data types. |