IKARUS(1)

💖 IKARUS 💖 — the ikarus(1) manual, bestie edition

okay so you opened the manual for ikarus, and I am so glad you're here. This is section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and it's literally just about the ikarus command. Sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ikarus — Scheme Programming Language 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ikarus -h
ikarus [-b bootfile] --r6rs-script scriptfile [opts]
ikarus [-b bootfile] [files] [opts]

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe check. three shapes, pick your fighter 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the ikarus command starts the Ikarus Scheme system, periodt. And if you invoke ikarus with no options at all? Bestie, you fall straight into a read-eval-print loop. Just you, a prompt, and unlimited power 🔥

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -h — prints the help message, then dips. Exits. Bye 👋
• [-b <bootfile>] --r6rs-script <scriptfile> opts ... — starts ikarus in r6rs-script mode 🌈 The script file gets treated as an R6RS-script. And those opts ...? You can grab them with the "command-line" procedure over in the (rnrs programs) library. iykyk ✨
• [-b <bootfile>] <file> ... [-- opts ...] — starts ikarus in interactive mode 🧚 Each of the files gets loaded into the interaction environment first, before the interactive repl kicks off. The options opts can be obtained using the "command-line" procedure. (yes, same procedure, different day 💜)
• If the option [-b <bootfile>] is provided, the bootfile is used as the system's initial boot file, which is what the environment gets initialized from. No -b? Then the default boot file is used instead. The current default boot file location is /usr/lib/ikarus/ikarus.boot 📁 Consult the Ikarus Scheme User's Guide for more details, bestie, it's all in there.

not me being obsessed with the fact that -b is literally just "which brain do we boot from" 🧠✨

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /usr/lib/ikarus/ikarus.boot

⭐ ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES ⭐

none 🙈

like. zero. not a single one. the environment is clean, the environment is thriving, the environment said "no thoughts head empty" 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The wrapper scheme-script(1) is useful for writing Scheme scripts that use ikarus. Bestie, if you're writing scripts, go look at it, it's giving convenience 🫶

Further documentation is available in /usr/share/doc/ikarus/ikarus-scheme-users-guide.pdf and at http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~aghuloum/ikarus/.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

ikarus was written by Abdulaziz Ghuloum. absolute icon, no cap 💅

This manual page was written by Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org> while packaging ikarus for Debian. thank you for your service 🫡

okay that's the whole page, you're fully caught up. go write something iconic in Scheme. slay 💖

General Commands Manual, dated November 27, 2007 — that's the source and the date, bestie, and this has been the ikarus(1) glow-up 🎀✨