[racket] Call by Name

On 11/27/12 2:39 PM, J. Ian Johnson wrote:
> If you don't need to dispatch on name at runtime, you can write a macro for this and use format-id to construct the identifier naming the function. Otherwise you would need to use eval, which is highly inadvisable.
>
> #lang racket
> (require (for-syntax racket/syntax))
> (define-for-syntax ((call-fns-with-base base start end) stx)
>    (syntax-case stx ()
>      [(_) #`(begin #,@(for/list ([n (range start end)])
>                         (with-syntax ([name (format-id base "~a~a" base n)])
>                           #`(name))))]))
> (define-syntax call-fns (call-fns-with-base #'test 1 1000))
> (call-fns)
>
> ;(untested)
> -Ian

This is a slight variation on Ian's suggestion.  It uses a macro (id-in 
name n m) that constructs a list consisting of the elements namen ... 
namem-1.

#lang racket
(require (for-syntax racket/syntax))
(define-syntax (id-in stx)
   (syntax-case stx ()
     [(id-in name i j)
      (with-syntax ([(id ...)
                     (for/list ([n (in-range (syntax->datum #'i)
                                             (syntax->datum #'j))])
                       (format-id stx "~a~a" #'name n))])
        #'(list id ...))]))


(define (f1) 1)
(define (f2) 2)
(define (f3) 3)

(map (λ (f) (f)) (id-in f 1 4))