Hello,
I'm writing some code to manipulate a few structs and in doing so have run
into a rub. There doesn't seem to be a convenient way to do functional
updates for structs.
Normally I'd use struct-copy, but I have neither the field nor the type
name at compile time, currently I have a macro that looks like this
(wire some-struct-accessor ; source
some-proc ; pipe
(lambda (s v) (struct-copy type-name s [field-name v]))) ; sink
which just looks clunky when compared to the functional accessor. My
research turned up a thread[1] from 2010 that proposed
(type-name/field struct val)
as an updater counterpart to
(type-name-field struct)
but that doesn't seem to have gone anywhere.
I figured I'd ask to see if I'm about to reinvent the wheel here before I
just write some code to generate my update functions.
[1] http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2010-October/042390.html
Cheers,
Danny Gratzer
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