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tuples

Tuples are a datatype which has much in common with vectors. Namely they store a finite number of items with random access and make them available via (tuple-ref tup n). But contrary to vectors, the items can only by accessed but not assigned to. If you want to change a particular item, you must package it into a box or a single, which is a special tuple storing exactly one item, which can be changed via single-set! without changing the identity of the single object itself.

singles are the only tuples, which can assign to their content. Other special tuples are empty, couple and triple. Note, that couples can be used instead of pairs to implement immutable lists.

Documentation

In this implementation skiplists are implemented in the Design by Contract style, i.e. using the contracts module. A corollary of this is, that the documentation is included in one of the two modules in form of a procedure with the module's name. Apart from this documentation procedure the two modules, %tuples and tuples, have the same interface. The first module contains the raw implementations of the procedures, the second imports the first with prefix % and wraps those prefixed routines with contracts.

tuples

[procedure] (tuples [sym])

returns all available routines of the module when called without an argument, but when called with one of these routines as a symbol, returns its contract and documentation string.

Another way to get the complete documentation is to use print-doclist from the contracts module. Issuing

  (import tuples (only contracts print-doclist))
  (with-output-to-file "tuples.docu" (lambda () (print-doclist)))

you'll get a file tuples.docu which is the basis for the following documentation.

triple-right

[procedure] (triple-right tup)

returns the right item of a triple

triple-middle

[procedure] (triple-middle tup)

returns the middle item of a triple

triple-left

[procedure] (triple-left tup)

returns the left item of a triple

triple

[procedure] (triple x y z)

constructor for a tuple storing two items

triple?

[procedure] (triple? x)

tests for a tuple storing two items

couple-right

[procedure] (couple-right tup)

returns the right item of a couple

couple-left

[procedure] (couple-left tup)

returns the left item of a couple

couple

[procedure] (couple x y)

constructor for a tuple storing two items

couple?

[procedure] (couple? x)

tests for a tuple storing two items

single-set!

[procedure] (single-set! sg arg)
(domain (%single? sg) (true? arg))
(effect (state (%tuple-state sg) arg))

replaces state of sg with arg

single-ref

[procedure] (single-ref sg)
(domain (%single? sg))

returns the state of the single object sg

single

[procedure] (single xpr)
(domain (true? xpr))
(range (%single? result))

package xpr into a box so that it can be modified

single?

[procedure] (single? xpr)

check, if xpr evaluates to a single

empty

[procedure] (empty)

constructor for an empty tuple

empty?

[procedure] (empty? x)

tests for an empty tuple

tuple-for-each

[procedure] (tuple-for-each proc tup)
(domain (%tuple? tup) (procedure? proc) a one parameter procedure)

apply a one parameter procedure to each item of tup

tuple->list

[procedure] (tuple->list tup)
(domain (%tuple? tup))
(range (list? result))

transforms a tuple into a list

tuple-find

[procedure] (tuple-find tup item compare?)
(domain (%tuple? tup) (procedure? compare?) a two parameter predicate)
(range (or (not result) (and (cardinal? result) (< result (%tuple-length tup)))))

checks by comparing with compare? if item is contained in tup

tuple-right

[procedure] (tuple-right tup)
(domain (%tuple? tup) (>= (%tuple-length tup) 2))

returns the rightmost item of tup

tuple-left

[procedure] (tuple-left tup)
(domain (%tuple? tup) (positive? (%tuple-length tup)))

returns the leftmost item of tup

tuple-ref

[procedure] (tuple-ref tup n)
(domain (%tuple? tup) (cardinal? n) (< n (%tuple-length tup)))

returns the n'th item of tup, counting from zero

tuple-length

[procedure] (tuple-length tup)
(domain (%tuple? tup))
(range (cardinal? result))

returns the number of tuple items

tuple-copy

[procedure] (tuple-copy tup . interval)
(domain (%tuple? tup)
				(<= (length interval) 2)
				((list-of? cardinal?) interval)
				(apply <= (append interval (list (%tuple-length tup)))))
(range (%tuple? result))

constructing a subtuple with tup data from interval

tuple-append

[procedure] (tuple-append . tups)
(domain ((list-of? tuple?) tups))
(range (%tuple? result))

constructs a new tuple by concatenating several others

tuple-map

[procedure] (tuple-map fn tup)
(domain (%tuple? tup) (procedure? fn) a one parameter function)
(range (%tuple? result))

constructs a new tuple by mapping each item of tup with function fn

list->tuple

[procedure] (list->tuple lst)
(domain (list? lst))
(range (%tuple? result))

transforms a list into a tuple

tuple

[procedure] (tuple . args)
(domain (true? args))
(range (%tuple? result))

tuple constructor

tuple-of?

[procedure] (tuple-of? ok?)
(domain (procedure? ok?) ok? is a one parameter predicate)
(range (procedure? result) result is a one parameter predicate)

checks, if each tuple item satisfies predicate ok?

tuple?

[procedure] (tuple? xpr)

checks if xpr evaluates to a tuple

Requirements

contracts

Last update

Aug 02, 2012

Author

Juergen Lorenz

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Version History

0.8
code split into two modules
0.7
single-state and single-state! renamed to single-ref and single-set!
0.6
contracts rewritten
0.5
code maintenance
0.4
added copyright notice
0.3
updated for using contracts 1.0
0.2
added tuple-copy, tuple-left, tuple-right
0.1
initial import