Features
- Quick startup - Gauche includes common features in its executable, while less common functions are in libraries which are loaded on demand.
- Module system - A simple module system, API compatible to STklos.
- Object system - CLOS-like object system with metaobject protocol. Almost API compatible to STklos. It is also similar to Guile's object system.
- Native multilingual support - Strings are represented by multibyte string internally. You can use UTF-8, EUC-JP, Shift-JIS or no multibyte encoding. Conversion between native coding system and external coding system is supported by port objects.
- Multibyte regexp - Regular expression matcher is aware of multibyte string; you can use multibyte characters both in patterns and matched strings.
- Built-in system interface - Gauche has built-in support for most POSIX.1 system calls.
- Network interface - Has API for socket-based network interface, including IPv6 if the OS supports it.
- Multithreading - Multithreading is supported on top of pthreads. Scheme-level API conforms to SRFI-18.
- DBM interface - Interfaces to dbm, ndbm and/or gdbm.
- XML parsing - Oleg Kiselyov's SXML tools are included.
Read more about this topic: Gauche (Scheme Implementation)
Famous quotes containing the word features:
“All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask!”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times—the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie—seem attractive by comparison.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)
“The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)