A number of useful utilities are either built in to Scheme 48 or can
be loaded from an external library. These utilities are not visible
in the user environment by default, but can be made available with the
open command. For example, to use the tables structure, do
> ,open tables >
If the utility is not already loaded, then the ,open command will
load it.
Or, you can load something explicitly (without opening it) using the
load-package command:
> ,load-package queues > ,open queues
When loading a utility, the message "Note: optional optimizer not invoked" is innocuous. Feel free to ignore it.
See also the package system documentation, in the module chapter.
Not all of the the libraries available in Scheme 48 are described in this
manual.
All are listed in files rts-packages.scm,
comp-packages.scm, env-packages.scm, and
more-packages.scm in the scheme directory of the distribution,
and the bindings they
export are listed in interfaces.scm and
more-interfaces.scm in the same directory.
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