[plt-scheme] redefining set!

I'm trying to redefine set! for variables part of a closure,
when within the closure. For variables outside the closure,
the behaviour should be different.

I think the method you proposed will fit the need. Going to
try it out in a spike.

Thanks

--Hans




Carl Eastlund schreef:
> When DrScheme encounters a reference to the builtin set!, such as
> (set! variable expression), it looks up the variable and expands based
> on that.  So if you have some variable and you want it to represent
> communication on a port, for instance, you could write the following:
>
> (define the-port (open-input-file "the-file.txt"))
>
> (define-syntax comm
>  (make-set!-transformer
>    (lambda (stx)
>      (syntax-case stx (set!)
>        [(set! id expr) (syntax (write expr the-port))]
>        [id (identifier? (syntax id)) (syntax (read the-port))]
>        [_ (raise-syntax-error #f "not an operator" stx)]))))
>
> This makes comm a macro.  When used in set!, it writes to
> the-file.txt.  When used as a variable reference, it reads from
> the-file.txt.  Any other use is a syntax error.  Unlike redefining
> set! (as Jens has just posted), set! will still work normally for
> every other identifier.  It has only changed for comm.  This may be
> the kind of context sensitive behavior you need.  If not, go with what
> Jens wrote.
>
> On 6/18/07, Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema <hdnews at gawab.com> wrote:
>> I looked, but I don't exactly understand what the documentation
>> is trying to tell me.
>>
>> --Hans
>>
>>
>> Carl Eastlund schreef:
>> > On 6/18/07, Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema <hdnews at gawab.com> wrote:
>> >> Is it possible to redefine, or override set!?
>> >> I'd like to extend the behaviour of the set!
>> >> operator to act context sensitive.
>> >
>> > It is possible to bind some other syntax or value to the identifier
>> > set!, but it is also possible to define set!'s behavior on other
>> > identifiers using make-set!-transformer.  You may want to do that
>> > instead of changing set! itself.  Look up make-set!-transformer in
>> > Help Desk.
>
>