From: Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
To: Ben <ben@srctxt.com>, kawa@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: questions on libraries, pattern matching etc
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 00:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c68b192b-b967-ba77-6b50-362bcf5f6b6e@bothner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <04256eab-fe24-417b-9f0d-fc554c9add96@www.fastmail.com>
On 12/15/19 3:46 PM, Ben wrote:
> hi
> I'd like to test how I can use pattern match in Kawa. First I did try to use Kawas pattern matching function, but from what I saw it is a bit limited, for example there is no matching of lists.
Actually, there is matching of lists, but by matching them as general sequences:
#|kawa:1|# (! [a b c @rest] [1 2 3 4 5 6])
#|kawa:2|# (format "a: ~a b: ~a c: ~a rest: ~a~%" a b c rest)
a: 1 b: 2 c: 3 rest: #(4 5 6)
Implementing more general matching is mainly an issue of design including deciding on a syntax.
Fundamentally, should be syntax for matching a pair be:
(! (pat_car . pat_cdr) value)
or:
(! (cons pat_car pat_cdr) value)
or something else?
The latter is used in Racket, and is more flexible, I believe, but not as elegant -
which ties back to fundamental awkwardness with the Scheme evaluation model.
Of course once we/I decide on a syntax, then it needs to be implemented, but
should be fairly straight-forward, given the existing framework.
--
--Per Bothner
per@bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-16 0:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-15 23:47 Ben
2019-12-16 0:59 ` Per Bothner [this message]
2020-02-19 21:39 ` Duncan Mak
2020-02-20 11:00 ` Kjetil Matheussen
2020-06-29 20:50 ` Duncan Mak
2020-06-29 21:49 ` Per Bothner
2020-06-30 4:38 ` Duncan Mak
2020-06-30 5:48 ` Per Bothner
2020-07-01 4:52 ` Per Bothner
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