7 Enumerations (deprecated)
Utilities for defining simple enumerations of booleans, symbols and integers. These are useful wherever you would normally use a small collection of literals to represent possible values of a variable, and test for value equality with eq?. The define-enum form binds the literals to Scheme identifiers so the compiler catches typos that might otherwise take a long time to debug.
| (struct enum (name values pretty-values)) |
| name : symbol? |
| values : (listof (U boolean? symbol? integer?)) |
| pretty-values : (listof string?) |
An enumeration. For each symbol in values there is a human-readable string equivalent in pretty-values.
Returns a string representation of (enum-values enum), useful for including in debugging output. separator is used to separate the enum values in the return value.
Examples: |
| > (define-enum vehicle (car boat plane)) |
| > (enum->string vehicle) |
"car, boat, plane" |
Returns a string representation of (enum-pretty-values enum), useful for describing the possible values to a user. separator is used to separate the enum values in the return value.
Examples: |
| > (define-enum vehicle (car boat plane)) |
| > (enum->pretty-string vehicle) |
"car, boat, plane" |
| (enum-value? enum value) → boolean? |
| enum : enum? |
| value : any |
Returns #t if value is a member of (enum-values enum).
Examples: |
| > (define-enum vehicle (car boat plane)) |
| > (enum-value? vehicle 'car) |
#t |
| > (enum-value? vehicle 'apple) |
#f |
Returns a contract that accepts values from (enum-values enum).
| (enum-prettify enum value [default]) → string? | ||||||||||||
| enum : enum? | ||||||||||||
| value : symbol? | ||||||||||||
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Returns the pretty equivalent of value. If value is not found in enum, default is used instead:
if default is a procedure, it is called to determine the return value;
if default is not a procedure, it is returned.
Binds the following identifiers:
enum-id: an enumeration struct;
value-id (one binding per value): the values of the enumeration, each a symbol;
enum-id?: a predicate that recognises the values;
enum-id-out: a provide form that provides all of the above.
If value-expr and pretty-expr are unspecified for a value, they are created from value-id.
Examples: |
| > (define-enum vehicle (car boat plane)) |
| > car |
car |
| > boat |
boat |
| > plane |
plane |
| > (vehicle? car) |
#t |
| > (vehicle? 'apple) |
#f |
The optional #:prefix argument affects the names of the value identifiers (car, boat and so on) bound by the macro:
Examples: |
| > (define-enum vehicle (car boat plane) #:prefix vehicle-) |
| > vehicle-car |
car |
| > vehicle-boat |
boat |
| > vehicle-plane |
plane |