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<h3 class="section" id="Using-Guile-Interactively-1"><span>4.4 Using Guile Interactively<a class="copiable-link" href="#Using-Guile-Interactively-1"> &para;</a></span></h3>
<p>When you start up Guile by typing just <code class="code">guile</code>, without a
<code class="code">-c</code> argument or the name of a script to execute, you get an
interactive interpreter where you can enter Scheme expressions, and
Guile will evaluate them and print the results for you. Here are some
simple examples.
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<pre class="lisp-preformatted">scheme@(guile-user)&gt; (+ 3 4 5)
$1 = 12
scheme@(guile-user)&gt; (display &quot;Hello world!\n&quot;)
Hello world!
scheme@(guile-user)&gt; (values 'a 'b)
$2 = a
$3 = b
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<p>This mode of use is called a <em class="dfn">REPL</em>, which is short for
&ldquo;Read-Eval-Print Loop&rdquo;, because the Guile interpreter first reads the
expression that you have typed, then evaluates it, and then prints the
result.
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<p>The prompt shows you what language and module you are in. In this case, the
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<code class="code">(guile-user)</code>. See <a class="xref" href="Other-Languages.html">Support for Other Languages</a>, for more information on Guile&rsquo;s
support for languages other than Scheme.
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