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NAME

csi — The CHICKEN Scheme interpreter

SYNOPSIS

csi [ OPTIONĀ ... ] [ FILENAMEĀ ... ]

DESCRIPTION

csi is an interpreter for the programming language Scheme supporting most of the features as described in the Revisedˆ5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme. csi is implemented as a program compiled with the CHICKEN compiler.

FILENAME is a Scheme source file name with optional extension. OPTION may be one of the following:

-h , -help

Display usage and exit.

-version

Display version and exit.

-release

Print release number and exit.

-i , -case-insensitive

Enable case-insensitive reading.

-e EXPRESSION , -eval EXPRESSION

Evaluate the given expression.

-p EXPRESSION , -print EXPRESSION

Evaluate and print the result(s) of the given expression.

-P EXPRESSION , -pretty-print EXPRESSION

Evaluate and print result(s) prettily.

-D SYMBOL , -feature SYMBOL

Register feature identifier.

-no-feature SYMBOL

Disable built-in feature identifier.

-q , -quiet

Do not print banner.

-n , -no-init

Do not load initialization file. ā€˜.csirc’

-b , -batch

Terminate after command-line processing.

-w , -no-warnings

Disable all warnings.

-K STYLE , -keyword-style STYLE

Enable alternative keyword-syntax (

prefix, suffix or none )

-no-parentheses-synonyms

Disable list delimiter synonyms.

-no-symbol-escape

Disables support for escaped symbols.

-r5rs-syntax

Disable the CHICKEN extensions to R5RS syntax.

-s PATHNAME , -script PATHNAME

Use interpreter for shell scripts.

-ss PATHNAME

Run a script with a ā€˜main’ procedure

-sx PATHNAME

Same as -s , but print each expression as it is evaluated.

-setup-mode

Prefer the current directory when locating extensions.

-R NAME , -require-extension NAME

Import extension before executing code.

-I PATHNAME , -include-path PATHNAME

Add PATHNAME to the include path.

--

Ignore all following options.

ENVIRONMENT

The following environment variables change the behaviour of csi :

CSI_OPTIONS

When set to a string of command-line options, then the options are passed implicitly to every direct or indirect invocation of csi . Note that runtime options of the form ā€˜-:⟨ OPTIONS⟩ ’ cannot be passed using this method.

CHICKEN_INCLUDE_PATH

Contains one or more pathnames where the interpreter should also look for include files, separated by ā€˜;’ characters.

FILES
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/chicken/csirc

Scheme file loaded on startup. ( $XDG_CONFIG_HOME defaults to $HOME/.config )

$HOME/.csirc

Scheme file loaded on startup if the previous one doesn’t exists.

EXIT STATUS

The csi utility exitsĀ 0 on success, andĀ >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

chicken (1), csc (1)

More information can be found in the CHICKEN User’s Manual : http://wiki.call-cc.org/manual/index.

AUTHORS

The CHICKEN Team

BUGS

Submit bug reports by e-mail to chicken-janitors@nongnu.org Debian Apr 26, 2017 CSI (1)