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Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

it to learn Lisp. Basically, for a list of book titles I wanted to
return a list of position in text and the book title, so
(build-book-index "wjhedbwjhbMarkajbdadbGenesis" *books*)

gave: ((21 "Genesis") (10 "Mark")).

I had an approach working but it looked horrid so I thought I would try loop. I came up with this:

(defun build-book-index (text books)
(loop for book in books
when (search (string-downcase book) (string-downcase text)) collect
(list it book)))

Of course, ...collect it ... worked but the version above gave:

in: LAMBDA NIL
; (LIST IT BOOK)
; caught WARNING: undefined variable: IT

Is this expected?

Yes.

How can I get round it?

Not using IT.

(defun build-book-index (text books)
(loop
for book in books
for my-it = (search (string-downcase book) (string-downcase text))
when my-it collect (list my-it book)))

Gauche Scheme

(use srfi-13) ;; string-contains-ci

(define (build-book-index text books)
(filter-map~ book
(let1 p (string-contains-ci text book)
(and p (list p book)))
books))

(build-book-index "foo.tiger lillies.bar.dead calm.what"
'("whammo" "Tiger Lillies" "Dead Calm"))

===>
((4 "Tiger Lillies") (22 "Dead Calm"))

Given:

(define-syntax fn*
(syntax-rules ()
[(_ (a b c ... . d) . z)
(lambda (xs)
(let-values (((a b c ... . d) (apply values xs))) . z))]
[(_ (v ...) . z)
(lambda (xs) (let-values (((v ...) (apply values xs))) . z))]
[(_ (a . b) . z)
(lambda (xs) (let ((a (car xs)) (b (cdr xs))) . z)) ]
[(_ a . z) (lambda (a) . z) ] ))

(define-syntax filter-map~
(syntax-rules ()
[(_ (v0 v1 ...) expr seq0 seq1 seq2 ...)
(filter-map (lambda(v0 v1 ...) expr) seq0 seq1 seq2 ...) ]
[(_ v expr seq) (filter-map (fn* v expr) seq) ] ))
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From Newsgroup: comp.lang.lisp

B. Pym wrote:

Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

it to learn Lisp. Basically, for a list of book titles I wanted to return a list of position in text and the book title, so (build-book-index "wjhedbwjhbMarkajbdadbGenesis" books)

gave: ((21 "Genesis") (10 "Mark")).

I had an approach working but it looked horrid so I thought I would try loop. I came up with this:

(defun build-book-index (text books)
(loop for book in books
when (search (string-downcase book) (string-downcase text)) collect
(list it book)))

Of course, ...collect it ... worked but the version above gave:

in: LAMBDA NIL
; (LIST IT BOOK)
; caught WARNING: undefined variable: IT

Is this expected?

Yes.

How can I get round it?

Not using IT.

(defun build-book-index (text books)
(loop
for book in books
for my-it = (search (string-downcase book) (string-downcase text))
when my-it collect (list my-it book)))

Gauche Scheme

(use srfi-13) ;; string-contains-ci

(define (build-book-index text books)
(filter-map~ book
(let1 p (string-contains-ci text book)
(and p (list p book)))
books))

(build-book-index "foo.tiger lillies.bar.dead calm.what"
'("whammo" "Tiger Lillies" "Dead Calm"))

===>
((4 "Tiger Lillies") (22 "Dead Calm"))

Given:

(define-syntax fn*
(syntax-rules ()
[(_ (a b c ... . d) . z)
(lambda (xs)
(let-values (((a b c ... . d) (apply valuevs xs))) . z))]
[(_ (v ...) . z)
(lambda (xs) (let-values (((v ...) (apply values xs))) . z))]
[(_ (a . b) . z)
(lambda (xs) (let ((a (car xs)) (b (cdr xs))) . z)) ]
[(_ a . z) (lambda (a) . z) ] ))

(define-syntax filter-map~
(syntax-rules ()
[(_ (v0 v1 ...) expr seq0 seq1 seq2 ...)
(filter-map (lambda(v0 v1 ...) expr) seq0 seq1 seq2 ...) ]
[(_ v expr seq) (filter-map (fn* v expr) seq) ] ))

Using an anaphoric macro:

(define (build-book-index text books)
(keep book (string-contains-ci text book) (list it book)
books))

Given:


(define-macro keep
(case-lambda
((pred seq) `(filter ,pred ,seq))
((v test expr seq)
`(filter-map
(lambda(,v) (let ((it ,test)) (and it ,expr)))
,seq))
((v test seq)
`(filter (lambda(,v) ,test) ,seq))))
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