Re: Happy birthday, Guile!

["Linus Björnstam" <linus.internet@fastmail.se>]

Hooray! I have a bunch of small utils that I use to make repl life easier. One thing I did to scratch an itch is a clojuresque lambda shorthand (cut on steroids) for guile. It transverses whatever expressions you put into it and rewrites it into a lambda where all identifiers of the form %n where n is an integer gets transformed into a lambda argument.

https://hg.sr.ht/~bjoli/megacut/browse

 (megacut (let ((a "Hello ")) (string-append a %1)))
    => (lambda (%1) (let ((a "Hello")) (string-append a %1)))

Using read-hash-extend one can write #%:

#%(apply + (/ 10 %1) %&)
   => (lambda (%1 . %&) (apply + (/ 10 %1) %&))

It supports arbitrary many arguments, and also allows for "ignoring" arguments: 

#%(display %3)
    => (lambda (%1 %2 %3) (display %3))

A regular % is also a shorthand for %1:

 #%(+ % %) =>  (lambda (%1) (+ %1 %1))

I use it daily. 20 minutes of scripting that the last year or so probably saves me at least 25 seconds of typing :)

It has rudimentary unhygienic support for nesting, which may or may not be a terrible idea.

I have another useful little function, port->list which takes a port and a read function and returns a list of whatever the reader function returns until the port EOFs. less powerful than port-fold, but less fuss to use when you just want a list. I leave that as an exercise for the reader, though.

-- 
  Linus Björnstam

On Sun, 16 Feb 2020, at 15:56, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello Guilers!
> 
> Today, it’s been 9 years since Guile 2.0 came out!
> 
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2011-02/msg00173.html
> 
> It’s impressive how much has been accomplished since 2.0, and how what
> seemed like a pipe dream back then came into reality with 3.0.  I think
> Guile 2.0 started a renaissance of Guile, and it’s in bloom now.  :-)
> 
> We used to have a “Guile potluck” for the anniversary, where people
> would bring their own hacks and virtually join for a party.  We missed
> it this year, but if there’s a nice hack that you’d like to share, now
> is a good time!
> 
> Happy hacking with Guile!
> 
> Ludo’.
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