578ed1ba98
Moving all of my Emacs-related files into their own directory at the root of this repository.
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EmacsLisp
30 lines
711 B
EmacsLisp
;;; monoid.el --- Working with Monoids in Elisp -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
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;; Author: William Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com>
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;;; Commentary:
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;; The day has finally arrived where I'm using Monoids in Elisp.
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;;
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;; The monoid typeclass is as follows:
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;; - empty :: a
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;; - concat :: (list a) -> a
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;;; Code:
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;; TODO: Consider a prelude version that works for all Elisp types.
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(defun monoid/classify (xs)
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"Return the type of `XS'."
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(cond
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((listp xs) 'list)
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((vectorp xs) 'vector)
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((stringp xs) 'string)))
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(defun monoid/empty (xs)
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"Return the empty monoid for the type `XS'."
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(pcase (monoid/classify xs)
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('list '())
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('vector [])
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('string "")))
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(provide 'monoid)
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;;; monoid.el ends here
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