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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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