On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:48 PM, David Storrs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:21 AM, Jon Zeppieri <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I don't know that there's a right way, but if your functions are
>> nullary, then promises are a decent fit:
>>
>> (define conf
>> (delay
>> (with-input-from-file ...)))
>>
>> Then just (force conf) whenever you want the value.
>
>
> Yeah, that works well. Thanks!
>
> Any thoughts on how to do it for non-nullary functions?
>>
The more complicated your function signatures get, the more worthwhile
it will be to use the memoize package. But for, say, unary functions
you can easily use a hash table:
#lang racket
(define read-conf
(let ([h (make-hash)])
(λ (arg)
(hash-ref! h
arg
(thunk ...)))))
You can extend this to multiple arguments by using lists as keys, if
you want. Of course, you need to make sure that `equal?` is usefully
defined on your argument types.
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