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From: Ian Price <ianprice90@googlemail.com>
To: Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Safe pattern matching
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 10:48:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762217ofx.fsf@Kagami.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <876221olm1.fsf@karetnikov.org> (Nikita Karetnikov's message of "Sat, 09 Feb 2013 04:57:26 -0500")

Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> writes:

> How would you rewrite the following function in Guile?
>
> foo :: [Int] -> String -> [Int]
> foo (x:y:ys) "+" = (x + y):ys
> foo (x:y:ys) "-" = (x - y):ys
> foo xs       num = read num:xs

Daniel covered most of this already, but instead you might consider
(define foo
  (match-lambda* ....))
rather than
(define (foo . args)
   (match args
     ....))

the nearest analogue to read is object->string, but it is not a generic.

-- 
Ian Price -- shift-reset.com

"Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is
the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-09 10:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-09  9:57 Safe pattern matching Nikita Karetnikov
2013-02-09 10:12 ` Daniel Hartwig
2013-02-09 10:15   ` Daniel Hartwig
2013-02-09 10:48 ` Ian Price [this message]
2013-02-09 11:09   ` Ian Price

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