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Supported language

The R5RS standard
Deviations from the standard
Extensions to the standard
Non-standard read syntax
Non-standard macros and special forms
Macros
Modules
Types
Declarations
Parameters
Exceptions
Unit library Basic Scheme definitions
Unit eval Evaluation
Unit expand Modules and macros handling
Unit data-structures Data structures
Unit ports I/O ports
Unit files File and pathname operations
Unit extras Useful utility definitions
Unit irregex Regular expressions
Unit srfi-1 List Library
Unit srfi-4 Homogeneous numeric vectors
Unit srfi-13 String library
Unit srfi-14 Character set library
Unit srfi-18 multithreading
Unit srfi-69 Hashtable Library
Unit posix Unix-like services
Unit utils Shell scripting and file operations
Unit tcp Basic TCP-sockets
Unit lolevel Low-level operations

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