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Add "values" 

This oneliner is way too important to be left out.
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Přemysl Eric Janouch 2017-05-26 01:36:43 +02:00
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@ -32,17 +32,17 @@ The parser, however, does a bunch of transformations:
As an example, consider the following snippet:
print (if { eq? @var foo } {
quote 'Hello world\n'
values 'Hello world\n'
} else {
quote 'Error\n'
values 'Error\n'
})
which gets expanded to the following:
((print (if (quote ((eq? (set var) foo)))
(quote ((quote 'Hello world\n')))
(quote ((values 'Hello world\n')))
else
(quote ((quote 'Error\n'))))))
(quote ((values 'Error\n'))))))
Observe that the whole program is enclosed in an implicit pair of `{}` and that
`quote` is a very powerful special form which can replace many others if needed.
@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ Retrieve or set a named variable. The syntax sugar for retrieval is `@`.
Return a list made of given arguments. The syntax sugar for lists is `[]`.
`values [<item>]...`
Return an arbitrary number of values.
`if <cond> <body> [elif <cond> <body>]... [else <body>]`
Conditional evaluation, strings evaluate to themselves.

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@ -977,6 +977,10 @@ defn (fn_list) {
return check (ctx, (*result = new_list (values)));
}
defn (fn_values) {
return !args || check (ctx, (*result = new_clone_list (args)));
}
defn (fn_if) {
struct item *cond, *body, *keyword;
for (cond = args; ; cond = keyword->next) {
@ -1280,6 +1284,7 @@ static bool
init_runtime_library (struct context *ctx) {
if (!native_register (ctx, "set", fn_set)
|| !native_register (ctx, "list", fn_list)
|| !native_register (ctx, "values", fn_values)
|| !native_register (ctx, "if", fn_if)
|| !native_register (ctx, "map", fn_map)
|| !native_register (ctx, "print", fn_print)