Scheme is a high-level non-pure functional language in the Lisp family, with lexical scoping dynamically-types. The Kawa dialect of Scheme contains hooks to access and control Java objects.

Using the kawa script is equivalent to invoking an interpreter of the Java language on the kawa.repl class.

This manual page is just a quick synopsis. For more information, read the kawa manual - see below.

-e expression

Evaluate the expression.

-c expression

Evaluate the expression, but does not cause the start-up file ~/.kawarc.scm to be read.

-f filename

Read and evaluate Scheme commands from the filename.

-s

Enter an interactive read-evaluate-print command loop.

-w

Enter an interactive read-evaluate-print in a new top-level window.

-C filename

Compile filename to one or more Java class files. See the Kawa manual for details. If no options are specified, it is equivalent to -s. GNU can normally be used to edit commands.

/usr/bin/kawa

The kawa executable, which starts a java interpreter.

~/.kawarc.scm

Commands that are executed when kawa is started.