[plt-scheme] How to learn about typical applications of the match library?

On 10/07/07, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> Lately I've seen examples of match, match-let is one thing that
> immediately makes sense.
>
> What are some other typical applications of let? Where are some places
> to read up on it?

I use PLT-match _a lot_.
Here's an example from my own work (soon in a planet near you)
Which converts some fol formulas into formulas with only ands ors and nots.
(define (remove-redundant-ops f)
    (match f
      (`(=> ,op1 ,op2)
        `(or (not ,(remove-redundant-ops op1))
             ,(remove-redundant-ops op2)))
      (`(<=> ,op1 ,op2)
        (remove-redundant-ops
         `(and (=> ,op1 ,op2)
               (=> ,op2 ,op1))))
      (`(xor ,op1 ,op2)            ;; Binary xor
        (remove-redundant-ops
         `(not (<=> ,op1 ,op2))))
      (`(ite ,op1 ,op2 ,op3)
        (remove-redundant-ops
         `(and (=> ,op1 ,op2)
               (=> (not ,op1) ,op3))))
      (`(xor ,ops ..3)            ;; Multiple argument xor, which is
true iff exactly only one of the ops is true
       (remove-redundant-ops
        `(and (or , at ops)
              ,(apply encode-atmost1 ops))))
      (`(am1 ,ops ..2)            ;; Multiple argument atmost1
operator, encoding of cardinality constraints used
       (remove-redundant-ops (apply encode-atmost1 ops)))
      (`(and ,ops ..1)
        `(and ,@(map remove-redundant-ops ops)))
      (`(or ,ops ..1)
        `(or ,@(map remove-redundant-ops ops)))
      (`(not ,op)
        `(not ,(remove-redundant-ops op)))
      ((? symbol? s) s)
      (_ (error 'remove-redundant-ops "Couldn't find a match for ~a" f))))


The encode-atmost1 is the encoding for the cardinality constraint
AtMost presented in Carsten Sinz paper on CP2005.

And my PLTScheme model checker for formal specifications include
_lots_ of applications of plt-scheme besides this one.

Cheers,

Paulo Matos

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