From: Stuart Hungerford <stuart.hungerford@gmail.com>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Idiomatic Guile for semigroup/monoid/group?
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 08:02:23 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG+kMrFfxbT91M+ki4Kc8vr3myTvYDqY6wawCJYdgCiL-8-PYQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8c869dfc519b7faeec5feabe9243efa25cd1668d.camel@telenet.be>
On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 9:14 PM Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> wrote:
> Stuart Hungerford schreef op ma 03-01-2022 om 10:46 [+1100]:
> > Just out of interest, are there other multimethod/ad-hoc polymorphism
> > approaches for Guile?
>
> I only know of GOOPS and Theme-D -- Guix also has a
> ‘define-gexp-compiler’ but it's very ad-hoc.
>
> It allows defining something like
>
> (define (lower stuff system target)
> (cond ((derivation? stuff) stuff) ; done
> ((foo? stuff) (lower (lower-foo stuff system target)))
> ((bar? stuff) (lower (lower-bar stuff system target)))
> [...]))
>
> (where 'lower-stuff' converts 'stuff' into something 'lowerable'),
> but in an extensible way.
That's interesting -- thanks.
Stu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-03 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-01 23:45 Idiomatic Guile for semigroup/monoid/group? Stuart Hungerford
2022-01-02 10:46 ` Maxime Devos
2022-01-02 23:46 ` Stuart Hungerford
2022-01-03 10:14 ` Maxime Devos
2022-01-03 21:02 ` Stuart Hungerford [this message]
2022-01-03 10:02 ` zimoun
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