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Explicit-renaming macros
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Explicit-renaming macros

THIS MODULE IS NOW OBSOLETE. USE low-level-macros INSTEAD!

This module contains some macros to make the use of low-level explicit renaming macros easier. Recall that those macros are implemented as a transformer routine, which is a three-parameter procedure

(lambda (form rename compare?) ...)

which should (but needn't) be enclosed by an er-macro-transformer call. The programmer's job is to destructure the macro-code, form, and to do the renaming of all symbols which should appear in the macro-expansion by hand. An exception are the unhygienic symbols, they mustn't be renamed.

The job of destructuring the macro-code is tedious and error prone, it can be done by a tool, bind from the contracts module, for example. Based on that, a macro, er-macro-rules, has been implemented there. It mimics syntax-rules by design. The other job, compare? literal symbols supplied by the macro's client with renamed ones, something which is needed to use symbols like else and => in the cond macro, remains to be done. Hence er-macro-rules is unhygienic by design. It exports compare? to its local scope.

Important note

All macros in this module are unhygienic by design. They pollute the local (!) namespace with the symbol compare?. But the macros implemented with those macros can be - and are in most cases - hygienic.

Programming interface

er-macros

[procedure] (er-macros sym)

where sym is optional.

This is the documentation dispatcher provided for all modules written in the Design-by-Contract style. Without a symbol, it lists all exported symbols of the module, with one of these symbols it prints the contract of that symbol.

er-macro-rules

[syntax] (er-macro-rules (%sym ...) (code0 xpr0) (code1 xpr1) ...)

references a renamed version of sym ... under the name %sym ... and pairs the differnt macro-codes code0 code1 ... with expressions xpr0 xpr1 ..., which usually evalute to backquoted templates.

This macro is unhygienic by design, it introduces the symbol compare? into its scope. The macro is implemented in contracts and only passed through.

Unhygienic macros can not be implemented with syntax-rules, so we must use er-macro-transformer or er-macro-rules.

Based on er-macro-rules, it's easy to implement three macros, er-macro-define, er-macro-let and er-macro-letrec, which facilitate the implementation of low-level macros even more: We simply match one pattern, the macro code, against a list of the form

 (with-renamed (%sym ...) body . body...)

where %sym ... are aliases of sym ... and the sequence body . body... produces the macro-expansion.

er-macro-define

[syntax] (er-macro-define code (with-renamed (%sym ...) body . body...))

where code is the complete macro-code (name . args), i.e. the pattern of a macro call, and (with-renamed ...) is explained above.

er-macro-let and er-macro-letrec are local versions of er-macro-define, where the local macros are evaluated in parallel or recursively.

er-macro-let

[syntax] (er-macro-let ((code0 (with-renamed (%sym0 ...) body0 . body0...)) ...) body . body...)

where code0, %sym0 and body0, body0... are as in macro-define. This is a local version of er-macro-define, allowing a list of (code with-xpr) lists to be processed in body . body ... in parallel.

er-macro-letrec

[syntax] (er-macro-letrec ((code0 (with-renamed (%sym0 ...) body0 . body0...)) ...) body . body...)

where code0, %sym0 and body0, body0... are as in macro-define. This is a local version of er-macro-define, allowing a list of (code with-xpr) lists to be processed recursively.

Requires

contracts

Usage

(import er-macros contracts)
(import-for-syntax
  (only contracts er-macro-rules))

Examples

(use er-macros contracts)
(import-for-syntax
  (only er-macros er-macro-rules))

;; initialize documentation
(doclist '())

(define-syntax-with-contract aif
  "anaphoric if, which can reference the test result with name it"
  (er-macro-rules (%let %if)
    ((_ test then)
     `(,%let ((it ,test))
        (,%if it ,then)))
    ((_ test then else)
     `(,%let ((it ,test))
        (,%if it ,then ,else)))))

(define-syntax-with-contract acond
  "anaphoric cond, which can reference the test in each clause with it"
  (er-macro-rules (%else %begin %let %if %error %acond)
    ((_ (test . xprs))
     (if (compare? test %else)
       `(,%begin ,@xprs)
       `(,%let ((it ,test))
          (,%if it
            (,%begin ,@xprs)
            (,%error 'acond "no test succeeds")))))
    ((_ (test . xprs) (test1 . xprs1) . clauses)
     `(,%let ((it ,test))
        (,%if it
          (,%begin ,@xprs)
          (,%acond (,test1 ,@xprs1) ,@clauses))))))

;; save documentation in dispatcher
(define docs (doclist->dispatcher (doclist)))

;; a variant of or
(er-macro-define (my-or . args)
  (with-renamed (%if %my-or)
    (if (null? args)
      #f
      (let ((tmp (car args)))
        `(,%if ,tmp ,tmp (,%my-or ,@(cdr args)))))))

;; anaphoric when, which can reference the test result with it
(er-macro-define (awhen test xpr . xprs)
  (with-renamed (%let %if %begin)
    `(,%let ((it ,test))
       (,%if it (,%begin ,xpr ,@xprs)))))

;; anaphoric and, which can reference the previous arg with it
(er-macro-define (aand . args)
  (with-renamed (%let %if)
   (let loop ((args args))
     (cond 
       ((null? args) #t)
       ((null? (cdr args)) (car args))
       (else 
         `(,%let ((it ,(car args)))
            (,%if it
              ,(loop (cdr args)))))))))

;; anaphoric while, which can reference the result of each ok? with it
(er-macro-define (awhile ok? xpr . xprs)
  (with-renamed (%let %loop)
   `(,%let ,%loop ((it ,ok?))
      (when it
        ,xpr ,@xprs
        (,%loop ,ok?)))))

;; anaphoric lambda which can reference itself with self
(er-macro-define (alambda args xpr . xprs)
  (with-renamed (%letrec %lambda)
   `(,%letrec ((self (,%lambda ,args ,xpr ,@xprs)))
      self)))

(let ((f (lambda (n) (+ n 10))))
	(er-macro-let (
		((f n) (with-renamed ()  n))
		((g n) (with-renamed (%f) `(,%f ,n)))
		)
		(list (f 1) (g 1)))) ; -> (1 11)

(let ((f (lambda (n) (+ n 10))))
	(er-macro-letrec (
		((f n) (with-renamed ()  n))
		((g n) (with-renamed (%f) `(,%f ,n)))
		)
		(list (f 1) (g 1)))) ; -> (1 1)

(er-macro-letrec (
	((aif test then)
	 (with-renamed (%let %if) `(,%let ((it ,test)) (,%if it ,then))))
	)
	(aif (memv 2 '(1 2 3)) it)) ; -> '(2 3)

(er-macro-let (
	((aif test then)
	 (with-renamed (%let %if) `(,%let ((it ,test)) (,%if it ,then))))
	)
	(aif (memv 2 '(1 2 3)) it)) ; -> '(2 3)

(map (alambda (n) (if (zero? n) 1 (* n (self (- n 1)))))
		 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ; -> '(1 2 6 24 120)

(let ((lst '(0 1 2 3))) (aand lst (cdr it) (cdr it))) ; -> '(2 3)

(let ((lst '(0 1 2 3)))
	(acond ((memv 5 lst) it) ((memv 2 lst) it) (else it))) ; -> '(2 3)

(let ((lst '(0 1 2 3))) (aif (memv 2 lst) it #f)) ; -> '(2 3)

(let ((lst '(0 1 2 3))) (awhen (memv 2 lst) (reverse it))) ; -> '(3 2)

(let ((lst '(0 1 2 3)) (acc '()))
	(awhile lst
		(if (null? lst)
			(set! lst #f)
			(begin 
				(set!  acc (cons (car lst) acc))
				(set! lst (cdr lst)))))
	acc) ; -> '(3 2 1 0)

Author

Juergen Lorenz

License

Copyright (c) 2011, Juergen Lorenz
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. Neither the name of the author nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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Last update

Sep 13, 2011

Version History

1.5: module moved to category obsolete
1.4: with-aliases and er-macro-define-with-contract moved to contracts
1.3: reimplemented er-macro-rules from contracts with define-syntax-with-contract
1.2: additional tests introduced
1.1: moved er-macro-rules to contracts, dependency changed from matchable to contracts, added er-macro-define-with-contract
1.0: except with-aliases all macros are unhygienic
0.3: changed syntax of er-macro-rules and resulting corrections
0.2: added with-renamed-aliases, renamed explicit-renaming er-macro-rules, added er-prefix to other symbols
0.1: initial import