From: Abhiseck Paira <abhiseckpaira@disroot.org>
To: vivien@planete-kraus.eu
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Pattern matching: what does (= f pat) do?
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2022 21:41:51 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1xbcwel.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871r712p4k.fsf@planete-kraus.eu
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> Dear guile users,
> The pattern matching manual has a strange description for the (= f pat)
> pattern. It reads:
> (= field pat) a ``field'' of an object
> However, the next example shows how you can apply a function in field
> without having anything to do with a field of an object.
> Based on the given example, and some experiments on my part, I think
> that the description should be:
> (= f pat) applies f, and matches pat in the result
> Am I correct?
> Vivien
It seems your interpretation is correct! Thanks to your message I could
figure out what this spec means as it didn't make much sense in the
manual or in srfi-200 documentation[0] (The specification seems to have
been copied verbatim from srfi-200).
[0] https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-200/srfi-200.html
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