Re: A few half-baked ideas for SRFI 210
Marc Nieper-WiÃkirchen 31 Aug 2020 18:17 UTC
Am Mo., 31. Aug. 2020 um 18:17 Uhr schrieb Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
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> Further syntax (also related to pipelining), we should consider to add are:
>
> (bind <producer> <transducer> ... <consumer>)
>
> which is evaluated by evaluating all arguments and then by calling the
> value of the first <transducer> with the values of <producer>, calling
> the value of the next <transducer> with the resulting values and so on
> until the the value of <consumer> is called to yield the final values.
>
> Related is
>
> (compose transducer ... transducer),
>
> which is just multiple-value-aware composition (this doesn't have to
> be syntax; it could be a procedure).
>
> and
>
> (bind* list transducer ... consumer)
>
> which is a procedure evaluating
>
> (bind (apply values list) transducer ... consumer)
A better name for bind* would be bind-list. And then we can have
bind-vector and bind-box as well.
Marc