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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: srfe records in reworked match
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:23:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ochattd6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 201004230952.42913.stefan.tampe@spray.se

Hi,

stefan <stefan.tampe@spray.se> writes:

> On Wednesday 21 April 2010 10:40:29 am Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> As noted in Shinn’s match-cond-expand.scm, this record matching form is
>> not ideal:
>> 
>>   ;; Annoying unhygienic record matching.  Record patterns look like
>>   ;;   ($ record fields...)
>>   ;; where the record name simply assumes that the same name suffixed
>>   ;; with a "?" is the correct predicate.
>> 
>
> Entering,
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (macroexpand '(n? x))
> (if (struct? x) (eq? (struct-vtable x) n) #f)

That’s an implementation detail that you should ignore.  :-)

Just have users write:

  (($ n? a b c) ...)

Where ‘n?’ is bound to the record type predicate, and have ‘match’
invoke that record type predicate.

Thanks,
Ludo’.





  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-23  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-20 13:14 srfe records in reworked match stefan
2010-04-21  8:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
     [not found]   ` <07487229-BEA5-49C8-B73F-83370F028513@spray.se>
2010-04-21 11:47     ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-04-22 11:13   ` Andy Wingo
2010-04-22 12:27     ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-04-22 12:52       ` Andy Wingo
2010-04-22 12:57         ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-04-22 13:48           ` Andy Wingo
2010-04-22 17:09       ` stefan
2010-04-23  7:52   ` stefan
2010-04-23  9:23     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2010-04-23 20:21   ` stefan
2010-04-28  8:40     ` Ludovic Courtès
     [not found] <CCF7F725-F332-40DE-8193-65FB81ADD08C@spray.se>
2010-04-28 13:50 ` Stefan
2010-05-03 12:38   ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-05-03 13:35     ` Stefan
2010-05-03 13:51       ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-05-03 16:24         ` stefan

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