Guix uses the Guile implementation of Scheme. To start playing with the
language, install it with guix install guile
and start a
REPL—short for
read-eval-print loop—by running guile
from the command line.
Alternatively you can also run guix shell guile -- guile
if you’d
rather not have Guile installed in your user profile.
In the following examples, lines show what you would type at the REPL; lines starting with “⇒” show evaluation results, while lines starting with “-|” show things that get printed. See Using Guile Interactively in GNU Guile Reference Manual, for more details on the REPL.
#true
and #false
(abbreviated #t
and #f
) stand
for the Booleans “true” and “false”, respectively.
유효한 식의 예제:
"안녕 세상아!" ⇒ "안녕 세상아!" 17 ⇒ 17 (display (string-append "안녕 " "Guix" "\n")) -| 안녕 Guix! ⇒ #<unspecified>
lambda
term:
The above procedure returns the square of its argument. Since everything is
an expression, the lambda
expression returns an anonymous procedure,
which can in turn be applied to an argument:
((lambda (x) (* x x)) 3) ⇒ 9
Procedures are regular values just like numbers, strings, Booleans, and so on.
define
와 함께 전역 이름을 할당 할 수 있습니다:
(define a 3) (define square (lambda (x) (* x x))) (square a) ⇒ 9
(define (square x) (* x x))
list
procedure:
(list 2 a 5 7) ⇒ (2 3 5 7)
(srfi srfi-1)
module to
create and process lists (see list processing in GNU Guile
Reference Manual). Here are some of the most useful ones in action:
(use-modules (srfi srfi-1)) ;import list processing procedures (append (list 1 2) (list 3 4)) ⇒ (1 2 3 4) (map (lambda (x) (* x x)) (list 1 2 3 4)) ⇒ (1 4 9 16) (delete 3 (list 1 2 3 4)) ⇒ (1 2 4) (filter odd? (list 1 2 3 4)) ⇒ (1 3) (remove even? (list 1 2 3 4)) ⇒ (1 3) (find number? (list "a" 42 "b")) ⇒ 42
Notice how the first argument to map
, filter
, remove
,
and find
is a procedure!
'(display (string-append "안녕 " "Guix" "\n")) ⇒ (display (string-append "안녕 " "Guix" "\n")) '(2 a 5 7) ⇒ (2 a 5 7)
quasiquote
(`
, a backquote) disables evaluation of a
parenthesized expression until unquote
(,
, a comma)
re-enables it. Thus it provides us with fine-grained control over what is
evaluated and what is not.
`(2 a 5 7 (2 ,a 5 ,(+ a 4))) ⇒ (2 a 5 7 (2 3 5 7))
Note that the above result is a list of mixed elements: numbers, symbols
(here a
) and the last element is a list itself.
quasiquote
and unquote
: #~
(or gexp
) and
#$
(or ungexp
). They let you stage code for later
execution.
For example, you’ll encounter gexps in some package definitions where they provide code to be executed during the package build process. They look like this:
(use-modules (guix gexp) ;so we can write gexps (gnu packages base)) ;for 'coreutils' ;; Below is a G-expression representing staged code. #~(begin ;; Invoke 'ls' from the package defined by the 'coreutils' ;; variable. (system* #$(file-append coreutils "/bin/ls") "-l") ;; Create this package's output directory. (mkdir #$output))
See G-Expressions in GNU Guix Reference Manual, for more on gexps.
let
(see Local
Bindings in GNU Guile Reference Manual):
(define x 10) (let ((x 2) (y 3)) (list x y)) ⇒ (2 3) x ⇒ 10 y error→ In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: y
Use let*
to allow later variable declarations to refer to earlier
definitions.
#:
(hash, colon) followed by
alphanumeric characters: #:like-this
. See Keywords in GNU
Guile Reference Manual.
%
is typically used for read-only global variables in
the build stage. Note that it is merely a convention, like _
in C.
Scheme treats %
exactly the same as any other letter.
define-module
(see Creating Guile
Modules in GNU Guile Reference Manual). For instance
(define-module (guix build-system ruby)
#:use-module (guix store)
#:export (ruby-build
ruby-build-system))
defines the module guix build-system ruby
which must be located in
guix/build-system/ruby.scm somewhere in the Guile load path. It
depends on the (guix store)
module and it exports two variables,
ruby-build
and ruby-build-system
.
See Package Modules in GNU Guix Reference Manual, for info on modules that define packages.
Going further: Scheme is a language that has been widely used to teach programming and you’ll find plenty of material using it as a vehicle. Here’s a selection of documents to learn more about Scheme:
- A Scheme Primer, by Christine Lemmer-Webber and the Spritely Institute.
- Scheme at a Glance, by Steve Litt.
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, with Julie Sussman. Colloquially known as “SICP”, this book is a reference.
You can also install it and read it from your computer:
guix install sicp info-reader info sicpYou’ll find more books, tutorials and other resources at https://schemers.org/.