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Re: How to extract bindings from `pcase-let*`?
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Okam |
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Re: How to extract bindings from `pcase-let*`? |
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Tue, 16 Mar 2021 01:50:32 +0000 |
On 3/15/21 11:38 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
>> I would like to extract the bindings created by `pcase-let*` to use them
>> in a `setq` form. Is there a good way of doing this?
>
> Sending me a patch to `pcase.el` which does that?
OK. I wanted to see if there was an intentional entry point first.
>> Previously, I was using `macroexpand` on `pcase-let*` and extracting the
>> bindings from the list, but after the expansion produced by `pcase-let*`
>> changed recently, I realized that this way assumes too much.
>
> Interesting. Can you show me the code you used?
This is the simple code I used:
(defun loopy-pcase--get-variable-values (var val)
"Destructure VAL according to VAR using `pcase'.
Return a list of 2 sub-lists: (1) the needed generated variables
and (2) the variables actually named in VAR.
VAR should be a normal `pcase' destructuring pattern, such as
\"`(a . ,b)\" or \"`(1 2 3 . ,rest)\"."
;; Using `pcase-let*' as an interface, since it is a public function.
;; `pcase' knows to not assign variables if they are unused, so
we pass
;; back in `var' (a backquoted list) so that it thinks the variables
;; are used.
;;
;; This will give a form like
;; (let* (temp-vars) (let (actual-vars) VAR))
;;
;; NOTE: Named variables might be in reverse order. Not sure if
this is
;; reliable behavior.
(pcase-let* ((`(let* ,temp-vars (let ,true-vars . ,_))
(macroexpand `(pcase-let* ((,var ,val)) ,var))))
(list temp-vars true-vars)))
It assumes too much, and is not resilient to changes in how `pcase-let*`
expands. I don't fully understand the code of Pcase yet, and failed to
find something like Dash's `dash--match`, which returns a list of
bindings that can be substituted into forms like `setq` or `let*`.
I am doing this to attempt to optionally use Pcase for destructuring in
a macro that I am writing.