From: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
To: Mark Polesky <markpolesky@yahoo.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: passing an alist to a procedure without making a copy?
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:20:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ae3aa420904181820s22c372a6nf8d01b1c5f3d4728@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <484811.24959.qm@web83405.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
2009/4/18 Mark Polesky <markpolesky@yahoo.com>:
>
> (define my-alist
> '((a . 1)
> ))
>
> (set! my-alist (acons 'b 2 my-alist))
>
> my-alist ==> ((b . 2) (a . 1))
>
> (define (alist-prepend alist key value)
> (set! alist (acons key value alist)))
>
> (alist-prepend my-alist 'c 3)
>
> my-alist ==> ((b . 2) (a . 1))
>
> ________________________________
>
> How can I get (alist-prepend) to operate
> on the original alist?
Create a pointer to it:
guile> (define p-list (list my-alist))
guile> p-list
(((b . 2) (a . 1)))
guile> (define (alist-prepend palist key value)
... (set-car! palist (acons key value (car palist))))
guile> (alist-prepend p-list 'c 3)
guile> p-list
(((c . 3) (b . 2) (a . 1)))
However, this seems like an awkward way of doing
things; I'm thinking that you are bringing a
C/perl/python/java mindset to scheme, and that will
hobble you in general. For starters, always think
"how can I solve this problem without using set!
(or set-car!, or any kind of set!)"
--linas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-19 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-18 22:57 passing an alist to a procedure without making a copy? Mark Polesky
2009-04-19 1:20 ` Linas Vepstas [this message]
2009-04-19 7:30 ` r6rsguy
2009-04-19 17:35 ` Clinton Ebadi
2009-04-20 23:36 ` Neil Jerram
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