racket/collects/syntax/scribblings/parse/ex-kw-args.scrbl
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#lang scribble/doc
@(require scribble/manual
scribble/struct
scribble/decode
scribble/eval
"parse-common.rkt"
(for-label racket/class))
@title{Optional Keyword Arguments}
This section explains how to write a macro that accepts (simple)
optional keyword arguments. We use the example @racket[mycond], which
is like Racket's @racket[cond] except that it takes an optional
keyword argument that controls what happens if none of the clauses
match.
Optional keyword arguments are supported via @tech{head
patterns}. Unlike normal patterns, which match one term, head patterns
can match a variable number of subterms in a list. Some important
head-pattern forms are @racket[~seq], @racket[~or], and
@racket[~optional].
Here's one way to do it:
@myinteraction[
(define-syntax (mycond stx)
(syntax-parse stx
[(mycond (~or (~seq #:error-on-fallthrough who:expr) (~seq))
clause ...)
(with-syntax ([error? (if (attribute who) #'#t #'#f)]
[who (or (attribute who) #'#f)])
#'(mycond* error? who clause ...))]))
(define-syntax mycond*
(syntax-rules ()
[(mycond error? who [question answer] . clauses)
(if question answer (mycond* error? who . clauses))]
[(mycond #t who)
(error who "no clauses matched")]
[(mycond #f _)
(void)]))
]
We cannot write @racket[#'who] in the macro's right-hand side, because
the @racket[who] attribute does not receive a value if the keyword
argument is omitted. Instead we must write @racket[(attribute who)],
which produces @racket[#f] if matching did not assign a value to the
attribute.
@myinteraction[
(mycond [(even? 13) 'blue]
[(odd? 4) 'red])
(mycond #:error-on-fallthrough 'myfun
[(even? 13) 'blue]
[(odd? 4) 'red])
]
There's a simpler way of writing the @racket[~or] pattern above:
@racketblock[
(~optional (~seq #:error-on-fallthrough who:expr))
]
Yet another way is to introduce a @tech{splicing syntax class}, which
is like an ordinary syntax class but for head patterns.
@myinteraction[
(define-syntax (mycond stx)
(define-splicing-syntax-class maybe-fallthrough-option
(pattern (~seq #:error-on-fallthough who:expr)
#:with error? #'#t)
(pattern (~seq)
#:with error? #'#f
#:with who #'#f))
(syntax-parse stx
[(mycond fo:maybe-fallthrough-option clause ...)
#'(mycond* fo.error? fo.who clause ...)]))
]
Defining a splicing syntax class also makes it easy to eliminate the
case analysis we did before using @racket[attribute] by defining
@racket[error?] and @racket[who] as attributes within both of the
syntax class's variants. (This is possible to do in the inline pattern
version too, using @racket[~and] and @racket[~parse], just less
convenient.) Splicing syntax classes also closely parallel the style
of grammars in macro documentation.