;;; Beyond call/cc ;; Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;;;; This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or ;;;; modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public ;;;; License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either ;;;; version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ;;;; ;;;; This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;;;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU ;;;; Lesser General Public License for more details. ;;;; ;;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public ;;;; License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software ;;;; Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA ;;; Code: (define-module (ice-9 control) #:re-export (call-with-prompt abort-to-prompt default-prompt-tag make-prompt-tag) #:export (% abort shift reset shift* reset*)) (define (abort . args) (apply abort-to-prompt (default-prompt-tag) args)) (define-syntax % (syntax-rules () ((_ expr) (call-with-prompt (default-prompt-tag) (lambda () expr) default-prompt-handler)) ((_ expr handler) (call-with-prompt (default-prompt-tag) (lambda () expr) handler)) ((_ tag expr handler) (call-with-prompt tag (lambda () expr) handler)))) ;; Each prompt tag has a type -- an expected set of arguments, and an unwritten ;; contract of what its handler will do on an abort. In the case of the default ;; prompt tag, we could choose to return values, exit nonlocally, or punt to the ;; user. ;; ;; We choose the latter, by requiring that the user return one value, a ;; procedure, to an abort to the prompt tag. That argument is then invoked with ;; the continuation as an argument, within a reinstated default prompt. In this ;; way the return value(s) from a default prompt are under the user's control. (define (default-prompt-handler k proc) (% (default-prompt-tag) (proc k) default-prompt-handler)) ;; Kindly provided by Wolfgang J Moeller , modelled ;; after the ones by Oleg Kiselyov in ;; http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/delim-control-n.scm, which are in the ;; public domain, as noted at the top of http://okmij.org/ftp/. ;; (define-syntax-rule (reset . body) (call-with-prompt (default-prompt-tag) (lambda () . body) (lambda (cont f) (f cont)))) (define-syntax-rule (shift var . body) (abort-to-prompt (default-prompt-tag) (lambda (cont) ((lambda (var) (reset . body)) (lambda vals (reset (apply cont vals))))))) (define (reset* thunk) (reset (thunk))) (define (shift* fc) (shift c (fc c)))