From: "Aleix Conchillo Flaqué" <aconchillo@gmail.com>
To: Olivier Dion <olivier.dion@polymtl.ca>
Cc: guile-user <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Guix records
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 15:32:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+XASoX7+JcHG2_WNyg3MnraU0r5qS7GYrEfJqVY5NtSJWYqGQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfc2e9vn.fsf@clara>
Hi Olivier,
Unfortunately I don't have an answer, and actually I didn't even know this
existed, but I'd love to see a library for it. I added something similar
(in terms of syntax) to guile-json (define-json-type) and I'm happy to see
that it seems I was not doing something very stupid. For this specific
record it would be something like:
(define-json-type <employee>
(age)
(name)
(profession))
Which will define a constructor and getters (no setters). However, to
create a new record you have to use the constructor (which is not very
convenient) or use an alist and then use (scm->employee). But it would be
great if one could do:
(employee->json
(employee
(age 30)
(name "Foo")
(profession "Teacher")))
instead of:
(employee->json
(scm->employee
'((age . 30)
(name . "Foo")
(profession . "Teacher"))))
It would be fantastic to combine (guix records) and guile-json somehow, but
I'm not sure how.
Sorry I couldn't provide any useful insight.
Best,
Aleix
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 9:24 AM Olivier Dion via General Guile related
discussions <guile-user@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In the module (guix records), there's some very nice syntax rule
> `define-record-type*` that allows very powerfull declarative style of
> records. For example:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> (employee
> (age 30)
> (name "Foo")
> (profession "Teacher"))
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I would like to use this feature in my software. However, I don't want
> to have Guix as a dependency only for that. For now, I've copied the
> content of (guix records) into (my-software records). But this put
> burden of maitenance into my hands.
>
> Thus, I'm looking for an alternative, perhaps there's a Guile library
> (other than Guix' module) or a SRFI that offers similar feature?
>
> --
> Olivier Dion
> PolyMtl
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-09 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-05 16:51 Guix records Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2021-02-09 23:14 ` Taylan Kammer
2021-02-10 1:02 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-02-10 5:37 ` Taylan Kammer
2021-02-10 8:38 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-02-09 23:32 ` Aleix Conchillo Flaqué [this message]
2021-02-10 0:28 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2021-02-10 21:11 ` Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
2021-02-26 17:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
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