SKINT(1)

📦 version 0.6.8, in alpine 3.24

💖 SKINT(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the skint era — this is the manual page for the cheap and fast R7RS Scheme interpreter, and yes, it's giving iconic. no cap, it's a whole vibe. let's get into it. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

skint — cheap and fast R7RS Scheme interpreter. literally the main character of this whole page. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

skint [OPTION]... [FILE] [ARG]...

if you don't give it a FILE, it just starts an interactive Read-Eval-Print loop. so you can just vibe in the REPL. 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so skint is a small, self-contained interpreter for the R7RS-small Scheme language. all standard libraries are built-in — no extra setup needed, bestie. plus, more than 100 SRFIs can be loaded from the optional external library tree. it's giving "prepared for anything" energy. 🫶

when you supply a FILE, it's executed as a Scheme script (with SRFI-22 semantics) and then skint exits. so it runs your stuff and dips. periodt. 💀

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • -v, --verbose — increase output verbosity. wanna see more? this cranks up the chatty vibes. 💬
  • -q, --quiet — suppress non-essential messages. for when you want peace and quiet, bestie. 🤫
  • -A, --append-libdir=DIR — append DIR to the library search path. just tack it on the end. 🎯
  • -I, --prepend-libdir=DIR — prepend DIR to the library search path. put it first, slay. 👑
  • -D, --define-feature=NAME — add NAME to the (features) list. manifest that feature. ✨
  • -U, --undef-feature=NAME — remove NAME from the (features) list. unmanifest it, lowkey. 💔
  • -e, --eval=SEXP — evaluate and print SEXP, then continue. like a little test drive. 🏎️
  • -l, --load=FILE — load FILE and continue. warm it up before the main event. 🔥
  • -s, --script=FILE — run FILE as a script (SRFI-22). script mode, go off. 📜
  • -p, --program=FILE — run FILE as a program (non-script mode). program mode, different vibe. 🎮
  • -V, --version — show version (in SRFI 176 format) and exit. know your era. 🏷️
  • -h, --help — show help and exit. when you need a lil guidance. 🙏
  • -- — ends option processing; remaining arguments are passed to the script. everything after this is for the script, not for skint. 🚧

🌼 ENVIRONMENT 🌼

  • SKINT_LIBDIRS — colon-separated list of directories searched for .sld libraries. if you don't set it, the default is ./:lib/:/usr/share/skint/lib/. so that's where it looks first, bestie. 🗂️
lowkey important: if this is unset, the default kicks in. no stress. 💜

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /usr/share/skint/lib/ — external library tree (.sld modules) installed by make libinstall. that's the good stuff. 📦

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

interactive REPL:

skint

interactive REPL with command line editing:

rlwrap skint

run a script:

skint -s hello.scm arg1 arg2

evaluate an expression:

skint -e '(display (+ 1 2 3)) (newline)'

load a file then enter REPL:

skint -l init.scm

💅 EXIT STATUS 💅

  • 0 — successful execution. we love a win. 🎉
  • 1 — syntax or runtime error. oop, something went wrong. 😭
  • 2 — command-line usage error. bestie, check your flags. 🚩

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

SKINT contributors (https://github.com/false-schemers/skint). they ate. 👑

that's the whole page, bestie. SKINT 0.6.8 — this manual is brought to you by the version, and it's giving iconic. now go write some Scheme. mwah. 💖✨🎀

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