guile 1.8.5

Version of implementation GNU Guile of programming language Lisp

A version of GNU Guile released in May 2008.

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Examples:

Hello, World! - Lisp (388):

Printing a message is a side effect of this command. Depending on the chosen implementation, the command will return either the message printed, or Unspecified return value. 

(write "Hello, World!")

Factorial - Lisp (389):

This example uses tail-recursive factorial calculation. Note that GNU Guile and MIT/GNU Scheme print correct result, while JScheme has values of factorial starting with 13! wrong due to overflow. 

(define (factorial x)
  (if (< x 2)
    1
    (* x (factorial (- x 1)))))

(do ((i 0 (+ i 1)))
  ((> i 16))
    (display (string-append (number->string i) "! = "))
    (display (number->string (factorial i)))
    (newline))

Fibonacci numbers - Lisp (390):

This example uses recursive definition of Fibonacci numbers. 

(define (fibonacci x)
  (if (< x 2)
    x
    (+ (fibonacci (- x 1)) (fibonacci (- x 2)))))

(do ((i 1 (+ i 1)))
  ((> i 16))
    (display (string-append (number->string (fibonacci i)) ", ")))
(display "...")
(newline)

Quadratic equation - Lisp (472):

begin is used to execute several commands in row. 

(define A (read))
(define B (read))
(define C (read))
(define D (- (* B B) (* 4 A C)))
(if (= A 0)
  (display "Not a quadratic equation.")
  (begin
   (define k1 (/ B -2 A))
   (define k2 (/ (sqrt (abs D)) 2 A))
   (if (= D 0)
    (begin (display "x = ") (display k1))
    (if (> D 0)
      (begin (display "x1 = ") (display (+ k1 k2)) (newline) (display "x2 = ") (display (- k1 k2)))
      (begin (display "x1 = (") (display k1) (display ", ") (display k2) (display ")") (newline)
             (display "x2 = (") (display k1) (display ", ") (display (- k2)) (display ")"))))))

CamelCase - Lisp (473):

This program shows how to use regular expressions from regex module. First two commands load the necessary modules. The third one reads a line from input stream using read-line command (rdelim module) — unlike plain read, it consumes characters till the end of line, not till the first whitespace — and converts it to lowercase.

The fourth command finds all matches for a regexp which describes a sequence of lowercase letters. Then it replaces each match with a return of a certain function applied to it (bound using lambda). In this case the function is string-titlecase which converts the first character of the string to uppercase.

Finally, the fifth command removes all non-letter characters from the string. 

(use-modules (ice-9 regex))
(use-modules (ice-9 rdelim))
(define text (string-downcase (read-line)))
(define text (regexp-substitute/global #f "[a-z]+"  text 'pre (lambda (m) (string-titlecase (match:substring m))) 'post))
(define text (regexp-substitute/global #f "[^a-zA-Z]+"  text 'pre 'post))
(display text)