Okay, this is worth poking into.


Ben Wolfson <wolf...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Phillip Lord
> <phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> So, with this case, say I want the Italian label, in the set which is the
>> value of the annotation key, find any list with the first element 'label,
>> and
>> third element "it", and return the second element. Of course, this can be
>> done
>> in Clojure, but the code gets complex very quickly.
>>
>> What I'd really want to be able to do is to use some sort of query; so I'd
>> write a data structure like so:
>>
>> {:annotation
>>  #{(label ? "it")}}
>>
>> and have this match and return
>>
>> {:annotation
>>  #{(label "Ingredienti di Pizza" "it")}}
>>
>> which is the bit that matches.
>>
>
> This is considerably more complicated than the query given, but I have lib
> which (when I push an update for better set, string, and map handling) will
> allow you to do something not entirely unlike that:
>
> macroparser.parsers> (run (map (both (keyword
> :annotation)
>
>                                      (set (seq (parseq (symbol 'label)
> (expression) (string
> "it"))))))
>
>                           '({:annotation #{(label "pizza" "it")}}))
> {:annotation #{(label "pizza" "it")}}
> macroparser.parsers>
>
> i.e., match a map with one value whose key is :annotation and whose value
> is a set containing a seq of 'label, anything, and "it".
>
> -- 
> Ben Wolfson
> "Human kind has used its intelligence to vary the flavour of drinks, which
> may be sweet, aromatic, fermented or spirit-based. ... Family and social
> life also offer numerous other occasions to consume drinks for pleasure."
> [Larousse, "Drink" entry]
>
> -- 

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