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Included modules
The CHICKEN system comes shipped with several modules. This section of the manual provides a reference guide to all the modules that are part of a standard installation. On top of these, you can install additional modules through the eggs system.
- Module scheme : Standard Scheme procedures and syntax
- Module r5rs : Standard Scheme procedures and syntax (alias for scheme)
- Module r4rs : Standard procedures and syntax of an old Scheme report
- Module srfi-4 : Homogeneous numeric vector datatypes
- Module (chicken bitwise) : Bitwise manipulation on integers
- Module (chicken blob) : Unstructured byte data
- Module (chicken condition) : Raising and handling of exceptions, manipulation of condition objects
- Module (chicken continuation) : Feeley's "a better API for continuations"
- Module (chicken errno) : Accessing the C "errno" variable
- Module (chicken file) : High-level API for file system manipulations
- Module (chicken file posix) : POSIX-specific file manipulations
- Module (chicken fixnum) : Operations on "fixnums" (small integers)
- Module (chicken flonum) : Operations on "flonums" (floating-point numbers)
- Module (chicken foreign) : Accessing C and C++ code and data
- Module (chicken format) : String formatting procedures
- Module (chicken gc) : Interacting with the garbage collector
- Module (chicken io) : Reading and writing to files and other ports
- Module (chicken keyword) : Operations on keyword objects
- Module (chicken load) : Loading code from files
- Module (chicken locative) : Accessing pointer-like location objects
- Module (chicken memory) : Low-level memory operations
- Module (chicken module) : Defining modules
- Module (chicken pathname) : Manipulating path names
- Module (chicken platform) : Information about the platform your code is running on
- Module (chicken plist) : Symbol property lists
- Module (chicken port) : Manipulating port objects
- Module (chicken pretty-print) : Pretty-printing s-expressions
- Module (chicken process) : Starting subprocesses and communicating with them
- Module (chicken process signal) : Sending and receiving POSIX process signals
- Module (chicken process-context) : Accessing the context (arguments, environment etc) of the current process
- Module (chicken random) : Generating pseudo-random number
- Module (chicken read-syntax) : Creating syntactic extensions to the reader
- Module (chicken repl) : Creating a Read-Eval-Print Loop
- Module (chicken syntax) : Creating syntactic extensions (macros)
- Module (chicken tcp) : Connecting over the network via TCP
- Module (chicken time) : Fetching information about the current time
- Module (chicken time posix) : Manipulating POSIX time
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