In its simplest form, Guile acts as an interactive interpreter for the
Scheme programming language, reading and evaluating Scheme expressions
the user enters from the terminal. Here is a sample interaction between
Guile and a user; the user’s input appears after the $
and
scheme@(guile-user)>
prompts:
$ guile scheme@(guile-user)> (+ 1 2 3) ; add some numbers $1 = 6 scheme@(guile-user)> (define (factorial n) ; define a function (if (zero? n) 1 (* n (factorial (- n 1))))) scheme@(guile-user)> (factorial 20) $2 = 2432902008176640000 scheme@(guile-user)> (getpwnam "root") ; look in /etc/passwd $3 = #("root" "x" 0 0 "root" "/root" "/bin/bash") scheme@(guile-user)> C-d $