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			79 lines
		
	
	
	
		
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			EmacsLisp
		
	
	
	
	
	
;;; maybe.el --- Library for dealing with nil values -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
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;; Author: William Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com>
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;; Version: 0.0.1
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;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "24"))
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;; Homepage: https://user.git.corp.google.com/wpcarro/briefcase
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;;; Commentary:
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;; Inspired by Elm's Maybe library.
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;;
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;; For now, a Nothing value will be defined exclusively as a nil value.  I'm
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;; uninterested in supported falsiness in this module even at risk of going
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;; against the LISP grain.
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;;
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;; I'm avoiding introducing a struct to handle the creation of Just and Nothing
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;; variants of Maybe.  Perhaps this is a mistake in which case this file would
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;; be more aptly named nil.el.  I may change that.  Because of this limitation,
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;; functions in Elm's Maybe library like andThen, which is the monadic bind for
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;; the Maybe type, doesn't have a home here since we cannot compose multiple
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;; Nothing or Just values without a struct or some other construct.
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;;
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;; Possible names for the variants of a Maybe.
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;; None    | Some
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;; Nothing | Something
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;; None    | Just
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;; Nil     | Set
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;;
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;; NOTE: In Elisp, values like '() (i.e. the empty list) are aliases for nil.
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;; What else in Elisp is an alias in this way?
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;; Examples:
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;; TODO: Provide examples of other nil types in Elisp.
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;;; Code:
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;; Dependencies
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(require 'list)
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;; Constants
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(defvar maybe--run-tests? t
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  "When t, run the test suite defined herein.")
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;; Library
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(defun maybe-nil? (x)
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  "Return t if X is nil."
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  (eq nil x))
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(defun maybe-some? (x)
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  "Return t when X is non-nil."
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  (not (maybe-nil? x)))
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(defun maybe-nils? (&rest xs)
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  "Return t if all XS are nil."
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  (list-all? #'maybe-nil? xs))
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(defun maybe-somes? (&rest xs)
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  "Return t if all XS are non-nil."
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  (list-all? #'maybe-some? xs))
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(defun maybe-default (default x)
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  "Return DEFAULT when X is nil."
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  (if (maybe-nil? x) default x))
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(defun maybe-map (f x)
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  "Apply F to X if X is not nil."
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  (if (maybe-some? x)
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      (funcall f x)
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    x))
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(provide 'maybe)
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;;; maybe.el ends here
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