On 2014-04-05 01:54, Claude Marinier wrote:
> [...]
> I would like to have the compiler do some of this for me. I probably
> cannot write a literal hash table but I expected to be able to write a
> literal association list. I have tried this but it does not work.
> [...]
> (define a-list
> `(
> (dot . ,(lambda () (display "dot\n")))
> (dash . ,(lambda () (display "dash\n")))
> ))
> [...]
Hello,
what you have written down here is not a literal list, but a
quasiquotation, which is just syntactic sugar that expands to an
expression dynamically constructing a list.
Nevertheless, the program you posted works just fine as it is. The only
problem I can see with it is that nothing visible happens because
> [...]
> (let ((func-dot (hash-table-ref dict 'dot))
> (func-dash (hash-table-ref dict 'dash)))
> func-dot
> func-dash)
> [...]
doesn't call the two procedures. To actually run the procedures, you
would have to write something like
(let ((func-dot (hash-table-ref dict 'dot))
(func-dash (hash-table-ref dict 'dash)))
(func-dot)
(func-dash))
Ciao,
Thomas
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