[plt-scheme] lambda-apply-values

Hi,

something I seem to often do is use list as structures, (and have lists of
these)

eg

#lang scheme
(define  people '(("Guy" 40 man) ("Maddona" 50 woman)))

I am often doing something like;

(map (λ (person)
(let ((name (car person))
        (age (car person))
        (gender (car person)))
   (blah-fn name age gender)
 ) people)

I could, but don't often, do (map (λ (name age gender) (blah-fn name age
gender) ) (map car people) (map cadr people) (map caddr people))

I realise this is a bit rubbish and have thought of a better way;

(map (λ (person)
       (let-values ([(name age gender)  (apply values person)])
         (blah-fn name age gender)
         )) people)

I sort of suspect that a macro might be the ticket - like;


(define-syntax-rule (lambda-apply-values-person1 values-list blah-fn x y z)
  (λ (values-list)
    (let-values ([(x y z)  (apply values values-list)])
      (blah-fn x y z)
      )))

(map (lambda-apply-values-person1 person (lambda args (display args)) x y
z)  people)

which works but doesn't handle multiple identifiers;

(define-syntax lambda-apply-values-person2
  (syntax-rules ()
    (lambda-apply-values-person2 values-list ...)
    (λ (values-list)
      (let-values ([(...)  (apply values values-list)])
        (list ...)
        ))))
of course this doesn't work. I suspect I can't do this with syntax-rules and
need to look at syntax-case and the syntax form.

Because I do this all the time I'm sure that others have a better way. What
do you do?

Cheers,

Stephen
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