Scheme Request for Implementation 161,
"Unifiable Boxes,"
by Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen,
is now available for discussion.
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Here's the abstract:
Unifiable boxes are, like the boxes of SRFI 111, objects with a
single mutable state. A constructor, predicate, accessor, and
mutator are provided.
In addition to the state, an equality predicate and union
operations (link, union, unify) are provided. Applying a union
operation to two unifiable boxes makes the two boxes equal (in
the sense of the equality predicate). As a consequence, their
state will also become identical. In the case of link and
union, it will be the state of one of the two unioned boxes. In
the case of unify, the state is determined by a supplied
unification procedure.
Regards,
SRFI Editor
