[plt-scheme] Macro rule selection

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:44 PM, James Coglan <jcoglan at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > I just started learning Scheme and am also trying to implement it,
>
> In what language are you implementing it?


Ruby, code here: http://github.com/jcoglan/heist

I took the implict contract here to be the fn will always be a
> multiple-arity function; so you can leverage apply and it saves you
> one rule.


Taking this with Eli's examples:

 (let ([x 4])
   (! x (compose square add1))
   (list 'x= x))

vs

 (let ([x 4])
   (define foo (compose square add1))
   (! x foo)
   (list 'x= x))

I can see how this would be dangerous (like I said, I'm playing with
features rather than building rock-solid code right now). Maybe a better
idea is:

(define-syntax ! (syntax-rules ()
  [(! x fn arg ...)
    (set! x (fn x arg ...))]))

Then you wouldn't get into trouble trying to do this:

(! x (compose square add1))
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