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-rw-r--r--guix/monads.scm27
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/guix/monads.scm b/guix/monads.scm
index 4248525433..2196a9c991 100644
--- a/guix/monads.scm
+++ b/guix/monads.scm
@@ -112,6 +112,29 @@
(lambda (s)
(syntax-violation 'return "return used outside of 'with-monad'" s)))
+(define-syntax-rule (bind-syntax bind)
+ "Return a macro transformer that handles the expansion of '>>=' expressions
+using BIND as the binary bind operator.
+
+This macro exists to allow the expansion of n-ary '>>=' expressions, even
+though BIND is simply binary, as in:
+
+ (with-monad %state-monad
+ (>>= (return 1)
+ (lift 1+ %state-monad)
+ (lift 1+ %state-monad)))
+"
+ (lambda (stx)
+ (define (expand body)
+ (syntax-case body ()
+ ((_ mval mproc)
+ #'(bind mval mproc))
+ ((x mval mproc0 mprocs (... ...))
+ (expand #'(>>= (>>= mval mproc0)
+ mprocs (... ...))))))
+
+ (expand stx)))
+
(define-syntax with-monad
(lambda (s)
"Evaluate BODY in the context of MONAD, and return its result."
@@ -120,13 +143,13 @@
(eq? 'macro (syntax-local-binding #'monad))
;; MONAD is a syntax transformer, so we can obtain the bind and return
;; methods by directly querying it.
- #'(syntax-parameterize ((>>= (identifier-syntax (monad %bind)))
+ #'(syntax-parameterize ((>>= (bind-syntax (monad %bind)))
(return (identifier-syntax (monad %return))))
body ...))
((_ monad body ...)
;; MONAD refers to the <monad> record that represents the monad at run
;; time, so use the slow method.
- #'(syntax-parameterize ((>>= (identifier-syntax
+ #'(syntax-parameterize ((>>= (bind-syntax
(monad-bind monad)))
(return (identifier-syntax
(monad-return monad))))