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authordos-reis <gdr@axiomatics.org>2007-12-07 01:18:09 +0000
committerdos-reis <gdr@axiomatics.org>2007-12-07 01:18:09 +0000
commitb5c3e7c499ddbb2674a3a7298f376efa48432ab2 (patch)
tree264ac0b61ef0c5f4af4837f229c5dfd19c0213ce
parentc980832a88deb36ff8657c9a86acb0750775db6b (diff)
downloadopen-axiom-b5c3e7c499ddbb2674a3a7298f376efa48432ab2.tar.gz
* syntax.spad (Syntax): Add explicit conversion functions from
Syntax to Integer, DoubleFloat, Symbol, and String.
-rw-r--r--src/algebra/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--src/algebra/syntax.spad36
2 files changed, 37 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/algebra/ChangeLog b/src/algebra/ChangeLog
index bea5710e..278e4ff3 100644
--- a/src/algebra/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/algebra/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-12-06 Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu>
+
+ * syntax.spad (Syntax): Add explicit conversion functions from
+ Syntax to Integer, DoubleFloat, Symbol, and String.
+
2007-12-05 Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu>
* syntax.spad (Syntax): Conversions to Integer, DoubleFloat,
diff --git a/src/algebra/syntax.spad b/src/algebra/syntax.spad
index 4962975c..80bee21e 100644
--- a/src/algebra/syntax.spad
+++ b/src/algebra/syntax.spad
@@ -54,16 +54,28 @@ Syntax(): Public == Private where
++ e.g. a sequence of cons cell ending with nil.
coerce: Integer -> %
- ++ convert(i) injects the integer value `i' into the syntax domain
+ ++ coerce(i) injects the integer value `i' into the Syntax domain
+
+ convert: % -> Integer
+ ++ coerce(i) extracts the integer value `i' from the Syntax domain
coerce: DoubleFloat -> %
- ++ convert(f) injects the float value `f' into the syntax domain
+ ++ coerce(f) injects the float value `f' into the Syntax domain
+
+ convert: % -> DoubleFloat
+ ++ convert(f) extracts the float value `f' from the Syntax domain
coerce: Symbol -> %
- ++ convert(s) injects the symbol `s' into the syntax domain.
+ ++ coerce(s) injects the symbol `s' into the Syntax domain.
+
+ convert: % -> Symbol
+ ++ convert(s) extracts the symbol `s' from the Syntax domain.
coerce: String -> %
- ++ convert(s) injects the string value `s' into the syntax domain
+ ++ coerce(s) injects the string value `s' into the syntax domain
+
+ convert: % -> String
+ ++ convert(s) extract the string value `s' from the syntax domain
buildSyntax: (Symbol, List %) -> %
++ buildSyntax(op, [a1, ..., an]) builds a syntax object for op(a1,...,an).
@@ -101,15 +113,31 @@ Syntax(): Public == Private where
coerce(i: Integer): % ==
i pretend %
+ convert(i: %): Integer ==
+ not integer? rep i => userError "invalid conversion target type"
+ i pretend Integer
+
coerce(f: DoubleFloat): % ==
f pretend %
+ convert(f: %): DoubleFloat ==
+ not float? rep f => userError "invalid conversion target type"
+ f pretend DoubleFloat
+
coerce(s: Symbol): % ==
s pretend %
+ convert(s: %): Symbol ==
+ not symbol? rep s => userError "invalid conversion target type"
+ s pretend Symbol
+
coerce(s: String): % ==
s pretend %
+ convert(s: %): String ==
+ not string? rep s => userError "invalid conversion target type"
+ s pretend String
+
buildSyntax(s: Symbol, l: List %): % ==
-- ??? ideally we should have overloaded operator `per' that convert
-- from list of syntax to syntax. But the compiler is at the