1. The cell datatype
    1. The API
      1. simple-cells
      2. cell
      3. cell?
      4. cell-of?
    2. Requires
    3. Examples
  2. Last update
  3. Author
  4. Repository
  5. License
  6. Version History

The cell datatype

In their paper "The First Report on Scheme Revisited", the authors Sussman and Steele remarked

"We also now believe that Carl Hewitt was right: we would have been better off to have introduced cells as a separate, primitive kind of object, rather than allowing assignment to any and every lambda-bound variable."

This module implements the cell datatype as a procedure of zero or one argument. Using it instead of set! set-car! and set-cdr! you have what Hewitt proposed ...

The API

simple-cells

[procedure] (simple-cells sym ..)

Documentation procedure. Without argument, returns the list of exported symbols, with argument the documentation of that symbol.

cell

[procedure] (cell var . tests)

Constructor. Creates a cell as a procedure of zero or one argument, closed over its state and initializes that state with var provided all tests succedd. Called without argument the cell returns its state, with argument, replaces the cell's state with that very argument and returns the old state, provided all tests succead.

cell?

[procedure] (cell? xpr)

Type predicate.

cell-of?

[procedure] ((cell-of? . predicates) xpr)

is xpr a cell which passes all tests of the predicates list

Requires

simple-exceptions

Examples

 

(use simple-cells simple-exceptions)

(define o% (cell 5 integer? odd?))
(cell? o%) ; -> #t
((cell-of? number?) o%) ; -> #t
((cell-of? even?) o%) ; -> #f
(o%) ; -> 5
(condition-case (o% 4) ((exn arguments) #f)) ; -> #f
(o%) ; -> 5
(define n% (cell 4 (named-lambda (3<=? x) (<= 3 x))))
(n%) ; -> 4
(receive (val checks) (n%) checks) ; -> (<procedure (3<=? x)>)
(n% 20)
(n%) ; -> 20
(o%) ; -> 5
(receive (val checks) (o%) checks)
  ; -> (<procedure (number? x)> <procedure (odd? x)>)

Last update

Feb 02, 2019

Author

Juergen Lorenz

Repository

This egg is hosted on the CHICKEN Subversion repository:

https://anonymous@code.call-cc.org/svn/chicken-eggs/release/5/simple-cells

If you want to check out the source code repository of this egg and you are not familiar with Subversion, see this page.

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Version History
1.2
dependency on simple-exceptions changed to that on checks
1.1.1
synchronizes documentation with code
1.1
cell-of? now accepts zero or many predicates
1.0
ported from chicken-4 version 1.3 with modification