doc: cookbook: Mention common SRFI-1 procedures.
* doc/guix-cookbook.texi (A Scheme Crash Course): Add item about SRFI-1.
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@ -192,7 +192,8 @@ rest are the arguments passed to the function. Every function returns the
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last evaluated expression as its return value.
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@item
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Anonymous functions are declared with the @code{lambda} term:
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Anonymous functions---@dfn{procedures} in Scheme parlance---are declared
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with the @code{lambda} term:
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@lisp
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(lambda (x) (* x x))
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@ -208,6 +209,9 @@ which can in turn be applied to an argument:
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@result{} 9
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@end lisp
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Procedures are regular values just like numbers, strings, Booleans, and
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so on.
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@item
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Anything can be assigned a global name with @code{define}:
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@ -233,6 +237,30 @@ A list structure can be created with the @code{list} procedure:
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@result{} (2 3 5 7)
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@end lisp
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@item
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Standard procedures are provided by the @code{(srfi srfi-1)} module to
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create and process lists (@pxref{SRFI-1, list processing,, guile, GNU
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Guile Reference Manual}). Here are some of the most useful ones in
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action:
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@lisp
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(use-modules (srfi srfi-1)) ;import list processing procedures
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(append (list 1 2) (list 3 4))
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@result{} (1 2 3 4)
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(map (lambda (x) (* x x)) (list 1 2 3 4))
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@result{} (1 4 9 16)
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(delete 3 (list 1 2 3 4)) @result{} (1 2 4)
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(filter odd? (list 1 2 3 4)) @result{} (1 3)
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(remove even? (list 1 2 3 4)) @result{} (1 3)
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(find number? (list "a" 42 "b")) @result{} 42
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@end lisp
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Notice how the first argument to @code{map}, @code{filter},
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@code{remove}, and @code{find} is a procedure!
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@item
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@cindex S-expression
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The @dfn{quote} disables evaluation of a parenthesized expression, also
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