[racket] Combining iteration and match

You want generic-bind:

http://stchang.github.io/generic-bind/generic-bind.html


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen at fastmail.net>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I find myself writing lots of expressions such as
>
>   (for/list ([temp some-sequence])
>     (match temp [(list a b) a]))
>
> where I iterate over a sequence and then destructure each element of
> the sequence using match, most often to pick some fields out of
> a struct. Is there a more compact way to do this? Ideally I'd like
> to write
>
>   (for/list ([(list a b) some-sequence])
>     a)
>
> I could probably hack together a suitable macro, but I wonder if there's
> already an idiomatic way to handle this situation.
>
> Konrad.
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