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6.7 Compound Data Types

This chapter describes Guile’s compound data types. By compound we mean that the primary purpose of these data types is to act as containers for other kinds of data (including other compound objects). For instance, a (non-uniform) vector with length 5 is a container that can hold five arbitrary Scheme objects.

The various kinds of container object differ from each other in how their memory is allocated, how they are indexed, and how particular values can be looked up within them.

6.7.1 Pairs		Scheme’s basic building block.
6.7.2 Lists		Special list functions supported by Guile.
6.7.3 Vectors		One-dimensional arrays of Scheme objects.
6.7.4 Bit Vectors		Vectors of bits.
6.7.5 Arrays		Matrices, etc.
6.7.6 VLists		Vector-like lists.
6.7.7 Record Overview		Walking through the maze of record APIs.
6.7.8 SRFI-9 Records		The standard, recommended record API.
6.7.9 Records		Guile’s historical record API.
6.7.10 Structures		Low-level record representation.
6.7.11 Dictionary Types		About dictionary types in general.
6.7.12 Association Lists		List-based dictionaries.
6.7.13 VList-Based Hash Lists or “VHashes”		VList-based dictionaries.
6.7.14 Hash Tables		Table-based dictionaries.

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