;;; list.el --- Functions for working with lists. -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; Author: William Carroll ;;; Commentary: ;; Since I prefer having the `list/' namespace, I wrote this module to wrap many ;; of the functions that are defined in the the global namespace in ELisp. I ;; sometimes forget the names of these functions, so it's nice for them to be ;; organized like this. ;; ;; Motivation: ;; Here are some examples of function names that I cannot tolerate: ;; - `car': Return the first element (i.e. "head") of a linked list ;; - `cdr': Return the tail of a linked list ;; As are most APIs for standard libraries that I write, this is heavily ;; influenced by Elixir's standard library. ;; ;; Elixir's List library: ;; - ++/2 ;; - --/2 ;; - hd/1 ;; - tl/1 ;; - in/2 ;; - length/1 ;; ;; Similar libraries: ;; - dash.el: Functional library that mimmicks Clojure. It is consumed herein. ;; - list-utils.el: Utility library that covers things that dash.el may not ;; cover. ;; stream.el: Elisp implementation of streams, "implemented as delayed ;; evaluation of cons cells." ;; TODO: Consider naming this file linked-list.el. ;; TODO: Support module-like macro that auto-namespaces functions. ;; TODO: Consider wrapping most data structures like linked-lists, ;; associative-lists, etc in a `cl-defstruct', so that the dispatching by type ;; can be nominal instead of duck-typing. I'm not sure if this is a good idea ;; or not. If I do this, I should provide isomorphisms to map between idiomatic ;; ways of working with Elisp data structures and my wrapped variants. ;; TODO: Are function aliases/synonyms even a good idea? Or do they just ;; bloat the API unnecessarily? ;;; Code: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Dependencies ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; TODO: Move `prelude/assert' elsewhere so that I can require it without ;; introducing the circular dependency of list.el -> prelude.el -> list.el. ;;(require 'prelude) (require 'dash) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Constants ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (defconst list/tests? t "When t, run the test suite.") ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Library ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (defun list/new () "Return a new, empty list." '()) (defun list/concat (&rest lists) "Joins `LISTS' into on list." (apply #'-concat lists)) (defun list/join (joint xs) "Join a list of strings, XS, with JOINT." (if (list/empty? xs) "" (list/reduce (list/first xs) (lambda (x acc) (string/concat acc joint x)) (list/tail xs)))) (defun list/length (xs) "Return the number of elements in `XS'." (length xs)) (defun list/get (i xs) "Return the value in `XS' at `I', or nil." (nth i xs)) (defun list/head (xs) "Return the head of `XS'." (car xs)) ;; TODO: Learn how to write proper function aliases. (defun list/first (xs) "Alias for `list/head' for `XS'." (list/head xs)) (defun list/tail (xs) "Return the tail of `XS'." (cdr xs)) (defun list/reverse (xs) "Reverses `XS'." (reverse xs)) (defun list/cons (x xs) "Add `X' to the head of `XS'." (cons x xs)) ;; map, filter, reduce ;; TODO: Create function adapters like swap. ;; (defun adapter/swap (f) ;; "Return a new function that wraps `F' and swaps the arguments." ;; (lambda (a b) ;; (funcall f b a))) ;; TODO: Make this function work. (defun list/reduce (acc f xs) "Return over `XS' calling `F' on an element in `XS'and `ACC'." (-reduce-from (lambda (acc x) (funcall f x acc)) acc xs)) (defun list/map (f xs) "Call `F' on each element of `XS'." (-map f xs)) (defun list/map-indexed (f xs) "Call `F' on each element of `XS' along with its index." (-map-indexed (lambda (i x) (funcall f x i)) xs)) (defun list/filter (p xs) "Return a subset of XS where predicate P returned t." (list/reverse (list/reduce '() (lambda (x acc) (if (funcall p x) (list/cons x acc) acc)) xs))) (defun list/reject (p xs) "Return a subset of XS where predicate of P return nil." (list/filter (lambda (x) (not (funcall p x))) xs)) (defun list/find (p xs) "Return the first x in XS that passes P or nil." (-find p xs)) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Predicates ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (defun list/instance? (xs) "Return t if `XS' is a list. Be leery of using this with things like alists. Many data structures in Elisp are implemented using linked lists." (listp xs)) (defun list/empty? (xs) "Return t if XS are empty." (= 0 (list/length xs))) (defun list/all? (p xs) "Return t if all `XS' pass the predicate, `P'." (-all? p xs)) (defun list/any? (p xs) "Return t if any `XS' pass the predicate, `P'." (-any? p xs)) (defun list/contains? (x xs) "Return t if X is in XS using `equal'." (-contains? xs x)) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Tests ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; (when list/tests? ;; (prelude/assert ;; (= 0 ;; (list/length '()))) ;; (prelude/assert ;; (= 5 ;; (list/length '(1 2 3 4 5)))) ;; (prelude/assert ;; (= 16 ;; (list/reduce 1 (lambda (x acc) (+ x acc)) '(1 2 3 4 5)))) ;; (prelude/assert ;; (equal '(2 4 6 8 10) ;; (list/map (lambda (x) (* x 2)) '(1 2 3 4 5))))) (provide 'list) ;;; list.el ends here