Re: engine record is ugly
Amirouche Boubekki 25 Oct 2019 16:22 UTC
Le ven. 25 oct. 2019 à 18:18, John Cowan <xxxxxx@ccil.org> a écrit :
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> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 4:39 AM Amirouche Boubekki <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > ((engine-set engine) okvs ((engine-pack engine) string uid)
>> > ((engine-pack engine) #t))))
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> Ah, I thought the issue was extensibility. SRFI 128 solves this problem by providing invokers as well as accessors, and in hindsight maybe I should have skipped the accessors. The general pattern is that the short names like engine-set and engine-pack take an engine object as the first argument and apply the appropriate procedure from the object to the other arguments. So the lines above become:
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> (engine-set engine okvs (engine-pack engine string uid) (engine-pack engine) #t).
I think I will do that.
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> If you still want accessors, call them engine-setter, engine-packer, etc.
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>> I will work on pre-SRFI for single dispatch and publish in on the
>> scheme newsgroup to collect more thoughts.
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> We already have SRFIs 99, 131, 136, 150, and R6RS. I would suggest working on something other than this can of worms.
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> John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan xxxxxx@ccil.org
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