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Read an s-expression from the input port port, or from the current input port if port is not specified. Any whitespace before the next token is discarded.
The behaviour of Guile’s Scheme reader can be modified by manipulating its read options.
Display the current settings of the global read options. If
setting is omitted, only a short form of the current read options
is printed. Otherwise if setting is the symbol help
, a
complete options description is displayed.
The set of available options, and their default values, may be had by
invoking read-options
at the prompt.
scheme@(guile-user)> (read-options) (square-brackets keywords #f positions) scheme@(guile-user)> (read-options 'help) copy no Copy source code expressions. positions yes Record positions of source code expressions. case-insensitive no Convert symbols to lower case. keywords #f Style of keyword recognition: #f, 'prefix or 'postfix. r6rs-hex-escapes no Use R6RS variable-length character and string hex escapes. square-brackets yes Treat `[' and `]' as parentheses, for R6RS compatibility. hungry-eol-escapes no In strings, consume leading whitespace after an escaped end-of-line. curly-infix no Support SRFI-105 curly infix expressions. r7rs-symbols no Support R7RS |...| symbol notation.
Note that Guile also includes a preliminary mechanism for setting read
options on a per-port basis. For instance, the case-insensitive
read option is set (or unset) on the port when the reader encounters the
#!fold-case
or #!no-fold-case
reader directives.
Similarly, the #!curly-infix
reader directive sets the
curly-infix
read option on the port, and
#!curly-infix-and-bracket-lists
sets curly-infix
and
unsets square-brackets
on the port (see SRFI-105). There is
currently no other way to access or set the per-port read options.
The boolean options may be toggled with read-enable
and
read-disable
. The non-boolean keywords
option must be set
using read-set!
.
Modify the read options. read-enable
should be used with boolean
options and switches them on, read-disable
switches them off.
read-set!
can be used to set an option to a specific value. Due
to historical oddities, it is a macro that expects an unquoted option
name.
For example, to make read
fold all symbols to their lower case
(perhaps for compatibility with older Scheme code), you can enter:
(read-enable 'case-insensitive)
For more information on the effect of the r6rs-hex-escapes
and
hungry-eol-escapes
options, see (see String Syntax).
For more information on the r7rs-symbols
option, see
(see Symbol Read Syntax).
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