Variables are declared using define and define-global. Variables declared with define are available for use anywhere in subsequent expressions in the same scope, and define-global makes them globally available.
do evaluates multiple expressions, and itself evaluates to the value of the last expression.
Variables for a limited scope are introduced using let:
You can see that let accepts a list of names and values, called bindings, or it can work with a single binding. More than one expression can follow the bindings, which works like do:
Variables and list values can be updated using set, which evaluates to the value that it updated: