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lazy-seq

A lazy sequence implementation inspired by Clojure's. It is an alternative to SRFI 41. See this article for the motivation of creating this egg and a comparison with SRFI 41.

API

[procedure] (make-lazy-seq body)

Returns a lazy-seq object. body is a thunk which will be called when the sequence is realized. It is expected to return one of the following things:

[syntax] (lazy-seq body ...)

Convenience syntax for make-lazy-seq with body ... being the thunk's body.

[procedure] (lazy-seq? seq)

Predicate for checking whether seq is a lazy-seq.

[procedure] (lazy-seq-realized? seq)

Predicate for checking whether seq has already been realized.

[procedure] (lazy-null? seq)

Predicate for checking whether seq is null. Realizes seq.

[procedure] (lazy-seq->list seq)

Recursively realizes seq and returns a list of its elements. Should not be called on infinite sequences.

[procedure] (list->lazy-seq list)

Turns list into a realized lazy-seq.

[procedure] (lazy-head seq)

Realizes seq and returns its head.

[procedure] (lazy-tail seq)

Realizes seq and returns its tail.

[procedure] (lazy-append seqs ...)

Returns a lazy-seq representing the concatenation of seqs.

[procedure] (lazy-take n seq)

Returns a lazy-seq of the first n elements of seq.

[procedure] (lazy-drop n seq)

Returns a lazy-seq of all but the first n elements of seq.

[procedure] (lazy-ref n seq)

Realizes seq up to the nth element and returns that element.

[procedure] (lazy-map proc seqs ...)

Returns a lazy-seq of applying proc to each element in seqs. Terminates with the sortest of seqs.

[procedure] (lazy-filter pred? seq)

Returns a lazy-seq of elements from seq satisfying pred?.

[procedure] (lazy-each proc seqs ...)

Recursively realizes seqs and applies proc to each item for its side-effect. Terminates with the sortest of seqs.

[procedure] (lazy-iterate proc x)

Returns a lazy-seq with a head of x and a tail of applying proc to the preceding element.

[procedure] (lazy-repeat x)

Returns an infinite lazy-seq of x.

[procedure] (lazy-repeatedly thunk)

Returns an infinite lazy-seq of the return value of thunk at the time an element is realized.

[procedure] (lazy-numbers #!key (step 1) (start 0) count)

Returns a lazy-seq of numbers starting at start and increasing by step. When count is a positive number the sequence terminates after count elements. Otherwise it is infinte.

[procedure] (input-port->lazy-seq port read)

Returns a lazy-seq of the results of applying read to port (which must be an input port). The sequence terminates when read returns #!eof. The port is not closed automatically by this procedure.

Examples

Defining a custom lazy-seq

(define odd-numbers
  (let next ((n 0))
    (lazy-seq
      (if (odd? n)
        (cons n (next (+ n 1)))
        (next (+ n 1))))))

(lazy-ref 5 odd-numbers) ; => 11

Note that odd-numbers can be defined more conveniently like this:

(define odd-numbers
  (lazy-filter odd? (lazy-numbers)))

About this egg

Source

The source code is hosted at Bitbucket. Feel free to fork it and send pull requests there.

Author

Moritz Heidkamp

Version history

0.0.1
Initial release

License

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