README.md

match-sagittarius

This library implements a pattern matcher macro match in R7RS scheme + er-macro-transformer (which is provided by sagittarius).

The pattern matcher is based on compiling patterns into instruction sequences that get merged into a tree as an optimization. The pattern syntax is quasiquoted forms.. with an additional way to add guard predicates. See compile-pattern.scm for the definition.

It is easy to add new pattern syntax by changing compile patterns and then implementing any new VM instructions to interpret-tree.

I was very happy to see it benchmarked on 時の羅針盤＠blog. Thank you!

Files

• trie.sld and trie.scm implements the algorithm to merge a list of sequences into a tree.
• compile-pattern.sld and compile-pattern.scm translates quasiquotation patterns into match instructions.
• interpret-tree.sld and interpret-tree.scm is a success/failure continuation based interpreter for match instruction trees. This produces the code for an invocation of the match macro.
• match.sld and match.scm implements the actual macro using all these utilities.

History

The gist here contains the original development of the pattern matcher including some important bug fixes.

Emacs

To get good indentation for this you can add the command to .emacs:

(put 'match 'scheme-indent-function 1)

How to use on Sagittarius

See example.scm. This uses shell trampoline.

Here is the way to use it in the repl

$ rlwrap sagittarius -L. -S.sld
sash> (import (match match))
#<unspecified>