From: Ralf Mattes <rm@seid-online.de>
To: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
Cc: Guile User Mailing List <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Comparison operators for strings /and/ numbers?
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 12:17:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170824101714.cvb6mhuaq44rqyp3@seid-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87378hjrhn.fsf@web.de>
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:29:41AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
>
> You can use GOOPS to make them generic:
>
> > (import (oop goops))
> > (< "a" "b")
That's not what David suggested. Of course you still need to define the
method specialized on strings.
> <unnamed port>:3:0: <unnamed port>:3:0: In procedure <: Wrong type argument in position 1: "a"
>
> Entering a new prompt. Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue.
> [1]> (define-method (< (a <string>) (b <string>)) (string<? a b))
> [1]> (< "a" "b")
> $1 = #t
>
> For some functions you might need to call (define-generic <function>)
> before this (you’ll notice because define-method will signal an error).
Is that still the case? IIRC this was true for Guile 1 where you needed
to "redeclare" build-in functions as generic, but from what I see Guile2
automatically generates the appropriate generic functions. This is
pretty much how Common Lisp handles defmethod without a matching
defgeneric (but in CL you aren't allowed to transform a function from CL
into a generic).
Cheers, Ralf Mattes
> Best wishes,
> Arne
>
> Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@qlfiles.net> writes:
>
> > Hi, in another lisp I have been working with, it has <, >, and ==
> > (structure equality) operators which can take string arguments, number
> > arguments, or a mixture of both. But it seems in guile that there are
> > separate comparison operators for strings and for numbers. This makes
> > sense but is not very convenient for my present purpose. Is there some
> > other guile operators or extension operators that will handle both? I
> > could make some I'm sure, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.
>
> --
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> ohne es zu merken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-24 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-24 6:05 Comparison operators for strings /and/ numbers? Christopher Howard
2017-08-24 8:05 ` David Kastrup
2017-09-19 4:27 ` Christopher Howard
2017-08-24 8:29 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-08-24 10:17 ` Ralf Mattes [this message]
2017-08-24 17:58 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-08-24 13:31 ` Chris Vine
2017-08-24 13:41 ` Chris Vine
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