2.4 System

These procedures are provided by all implementations.

Procedure: slib:load-source name

Loads a file of Scheme source code from name with the default filename extension used in SLIB. For instance if the filename extension used in SLIB is .scm then (slib:load-source "foo") will load from file foo.scm.

Procedure: slib:load-compiled name

On implementations which support separtely loadable compiled modules, loads a file of compiled code from name with the implementation’s filename extension for compiled code appended.

Procedure: slib:load name

Loads a file of Scheme source or compiled code from name with the appropriate suffixes appended. If both source and compiled code are present with the appropriate names then the implementation will load just one. It is up to the implementation to choose which one will be loaded.

If an implementation does not support compiled code then slib:load will be identical to slib:load-source.

Procedure: slib:eval obj

eval returns the value of obj evaluated in the current top level environment. Eval provides a more general evaluation facility.

Procedure: slib:eval-load filename eval

filename should be a string. If filename names an existing file, the Scheme source code expressions and definitions are read from the file and eval called with them sequentially. The slib:eval-load procedure does not affect the values returned by current-input-port, current-error-port, and current-output-port.

Procedure: slib:warn arg1 arg2 …

Outputs a warning message containing the arguments.

Procedure: slib:error arg1 arg2 …

Outputs an error message containing the arguments, aborts evaluation of the current form and responds in a system dependent way to the error. Typical responses are to abort the program or to enter a read-eval-print loop.

Procedure: slib:exit n

Procedure: slib:exit

Exits from the Scheme session returning status n to the system. If n is omitted or #t, a success status is returned to the system (if possible). If n is #f a failure is returned to the system (if possible). If n is an integer, then n is returned to the system (if possible). If the Scheme session cannot exit, then an unspecified value is returned from slib:exit.

Function: browse-url url

Web browsers have become so ubiquitous that programming languagues should support a uniform interface to them.

If a browser is running, browse-url causes the browser to display the page specified by string url and returns #t.

If the browser is not running, browse-url starts a browser displaying the argument url. If the browser starts as a background job, browse-url returns #t immediately; if the browser starts as a foreground job, then browse-url returns #t when the browser exits; otherwise (if no browser) it returns #f.