From: Tim Meehan <btmeehan@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
Cc: guile-user <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Somehow I have got this "thunk" thing wrong.
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 21:40:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACgrOxJLE8XKWzPQSMKenHDKwKQyk00K8EMqObd-MOmSVdc19g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0qlnn40.fsf@cbaines.net>
Yes, that makes sense. The unquote is a neat way to fix that.
One of these days, I will learn my lesson.
Thanks Christopher!
On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 6:26 PM Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> wrote:
>
> Tim Meehan <btmeehan@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I wanted to store a thunk in a hashtable so that I could look up its key
> > and then run it later. Something like this:
> >
> > #! /usr/bin/guile
> > !#
> >
> > (use-modules (ice-9 hash-table))
> >
> > (define stuff (alist->hash-table
> > '((a . (lambda () (display "event a\n")))
> > (b . (lambda () (display "event b\n")))
> > (c . (lambda () (display "event c\n"))))))
> >
> > (define res (hash-ref stuff 'a))
> > (res)
> >
> > But when I run it:
> > Wrong type to apply: (lambda () (display "event a\n"))
>
> The lambda bit you've written is quoted. So you're asking Guile to apply
> a list where the first element is the symbol 'lambda, the second is the
> empty list, ...
>
> You probably want something like this, where you're creating a list of
> pairs, where the car of the pair is a symbol, and the cdr is a procedure
> (rather than a list).
>
> (define stuff (alist->hash-table
> `((a . ,(lambda () (display "event a\n")))
> (b . ,(lambda () (display "event b\n")))
> (c . ,(lambda () (display "event c\n"))))))
>
> Does that make sense?
>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-06 0:05 Somehow I have got this "thunk" thing wrong Tim Meehan
2021-03-06 0:26 ` Christopher Baines
2021-03-06 3:40 ` Tim Meehan [this message]
2021-03-06 3:43 ` Tim Meehan
2021-03-06 0:31 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2021-03-06 0:48 ` Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
2021-03-06 16:55 ` Taylan Kammer
2021-03-06 17:16 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
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