3 Datum Pattern Matching

▼ |  | Syntax: Meta-Programming Helpers

1 | Parsing and Specifying Syntax
2 | Syntax Object Helpers
3 | Datum Pattern Matching
4 | Module-Processing Helpers
5 | Macro Transformer Helpers
6 | Reader Helpers
7 | Parsing for Bodies
8 | Unsafe for Clause Transforms
9 | Source Locations
10 | Preserving Source Locations
11 | Non-Module Compilation And Expansion
12 | Trusting Standard Recertifying Transformers
13 | Attaching Documentation to Exports
14 | Contracts for Macro Subexpressions
15 | Macro Testing
16 | Internal-Definition Context Helpers
| Index

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datum
with-datum
quasidatum
undatum
undatum-splicing

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### 3`` Datum Pattern Matching

(require syntax/datum) | package: base

The syntax/datum library provides forms that implement the pattern and template language of syntax-case, but for matching and constructing datum values instead of syntax.

For most pattern-matching purposes, racket/match is a better choice than syntax/datum. The syntax/datum library is useful mainly for its template support (i.e., datum) and, to a lesser extent, its direct correspondence to syntax-case patterns.

> > syntax
> > (datum-case datum-expr (literal-id ...)
> > clause ...)
> syntax (datum template)

Like syntax-case and syntax, but datum-expr in datum-case should produce a datum (i.e., plain S-expression) instead of a syntax object to be matched in clauses, and datum similarly produces a datum. Pattern variables bound in each clause of datum-case are accessible via datum instead of syntax. When a literal-id appears in a clause’s pattern, it matches the corresponding symbol (using eq?).

Using datum-case and datum is essentially equivalent to converting the input to syntax-case using datum->syntax and then wrapping each use of syntax with syntax->datum, but datum-case and datum to not create intermediate syntax objects.

Example:

> > (datum-case '(1 "x" -> y) (->)
> [(a ... -> b) (datum (b (+ a) ...))])
> '(y (+ 1) (+ "x"))

> > syntax
> > (with-datum ([pattern datum-expr] ...)
> > body ...+)

Analogous to with-syntax, but for datum-case and datum instead of syntax-case and syntax.

Example:

> > (with-datum ([(a ...) '(1 2 3)]
> [(b ...) '("x" "y" "z")])
> (datum ((a b) ...)))
> '((1 "x") (2 "y") (3 "z"))

> syntax (quasidatum template)
> syntax (undatum expr)
> syntax (undatum-splicing expr)

Analogous to quasisyntax, unsyntax, and unsyntax-splicing.

Example:

> > (with-datum ([(a ...) '(1 2 3)])
> (quasidatum ((undatum (- 1 1)) a ... (undatum (+ 2 2)))))
> '(0 1 2 3 4)

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