[racket] Creating ids from symbols

> From: Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu>


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In the end, I couldn't get no loving from it. BUT, I did discover the following ...

Suppose I define the file cache.rkt:

(module cache racket
  (provide encache inspect-cache set-cache)
;(require racket/serialize)
(define cache (void))
(define-syntax encache
  (syntax-rules ()
    ((encache var)
     (set-cache (cons (quote var) (lambda () var))))))
  
  (define (set-cache v)
    (set! cache v))

(define (inspect-cache)
  (displayln (format "~a ~a" (car cache) ((cdr cache)))))

  )

;; end

and a calling file foo.rkt:
#lang racket

(require (file "./cache.rkt"))

(define f 7)
(encache f)
(set! f 13)
(inspect-cache) ;=> f 13
;; end

It's far short of a full implementation, in that it only stores one value rather than many, doesn't serialize date to a file, and so on. But it does allow the module to take a sneak at the current value of the variable.


Maybe an interesting idea would be to create a way of creating a variable that represents the contents of some box, and see how that could be incorporated into a caching module.