64bit Linux, Quad-core

Patch which adds an stm-namespace containing a collection of performance test functions.

I'm surprised that this doesn't already work. We have support for unifying expressions in the pattern already. Look at line 1230 in tests.clj in the master branch.

So this should just work, no need to explicitly support macros as far as I can tell. If it's not working, then there's a bug.

At least on 0.7.5, matching against a macro gives a runtime error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: clojure.core.logic.LVar cannot be cast to clojure.lang.IFn
	at rl.core$glyph_$fn__123$fn__144$fn__165$fn__166$_inc__167$fn__168.invoke(core.clj:61)
	at clojure.core.logic.Substitutions.bind(logic.clj:211)
	at rl.core$glyph_$fn__123$fn__144$fn__165$fn__166$_inc__167.invoke(core.clj:58)
	at clojure.core.logic$fn__1056$_inc__1057.invoke(logic.clj:1160)
	at clojure.core.logic$fn__1056$_inc__1057.invoke(logic.clj:1160)
	at clojure.core.logic$fn__898$_inc__899.invoke(logic.clj:823)
	at clojure.core.logic$fn__890$fn__891.invoke(logic.clj:828)

Using a fn instead of a macro gives the same:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: clojure.core.logic.LVar cannot be cast to clojure.lang.IFn
	at rl.core$drawable_$fn__235$fn__248$fn__249$_inc__250$fn__251.invoke(core.clj:67)
	at clojure.core.logic.Substitutions.bind(logic.clj:211)
	at rl.core$drawable_$fn__235$fn__248$fn__249$_inc__250.invoke(core.clj:65)
	at clojure.core.logic$fn__1056$_inc__1057.invoke(logic.clj:1160)
	at clojure.core.logic$fn__894$_inc__895.invoke(logic.clj:826)
	at clojure.core.logic$fn__1056$_inc__1057.invoke(logic.clj:1160)
	at clojure.core.logic$fn__898$_inc__899.invoke(logic.clj:823)
	at clojure.core.logic$fn__898$_inc__899.invoke(logic.clj:823)
	at clojure.core.logic$fn__898$_inc__899.invoke(logic.clj:823)
	at clojure.core.logic$fn__890$fn__891.invoke(logic.clj:828)

Here's (glyph-) for reference (don't mind all the extra [], I have a weird key/value thing because of some conveniences for maintaining fact identity in a temporal database):

(defna glyph- [Key Val]
	([[Thing] [Glyph]] (thing- [Thing]) (on-fire_ *turn* [Thing]) (== Glyph \δ))
	([[Thing] [Glyph]] (thing- [Thing]) (fresh [Type] (type- [Thing] [Type]) (glyph- [Type] [Glyph])))
	([[(type-enum :player)] [Glyph]] (== Glyph \@))
	([[(type-enum :dragon)] [Glyph]] (== Glyph \D))
	([[Type] [Glyph]] (== Glyph \?)))

and type-enum as a macro:

(defmacro type-enum [v] `[:enum :type ~v])

and as a fn:

(defn type-enum [v] [:enum :type ~v])

I'll mess around and see if my example works in HEAD.

Same exception with this test case in HEAD (sorry for all the facts):

(defrel thing- [Thing])
(defrel type- [Thing] [Type])
(fact thing- [0])
(fact thing- [1])
(fact thing- [2])
(fact type- [0] [:player])
(fact type- [1] [:dragon])
(fact type- [2] [:pig])
(defn type-enum [t] [:type t])
(defna drawable- [Key]
  ([[Thing]] (thing- [Thing]) (fresh [Type] (type- [Thing] [Type]) (drawable- [Type])))
  ([[(type-enum :player)]] succeed)
  ([[(type-enum :dragon)]] succeed))

(deftest do-fns-work
	(is (= (run* [q] (drawable- [q])) '(0 1))))

Now that I look at it, I may be expecting a wrong-format return value, but the point is that I don't even get that far.

Using the REPL, I checked out how (defna drawable- . . .) expands (tidied up slightly):

(def drawable- (clojure.core/fn ([Key] 
  (clojure.core.logic/conda 
	  ((clojure.core.logic/fresh [Thing] (clojure.core.logic/== [Thing] Key) (thing- [Thing]) (fresh [Type] (type- [Thing] [Type]) (drawable- [Type])))) 
		((clojure.core.logic/fresh [type-enum] 
		  (clojure.core.logic/== [(type-enum :player)] Key) succeed))
		((clojure.core.logic/fresh [type-enum] 
		  (clojure.core.logic/== [(type-enum :dragon)] Key) succeed))))))

Note the (clojure.core.logic/fresh [type-enum] . . .) forms, which are exactly what I would not want to see in this case.

I'm not really sure why this doesn't work here yet works for the matche test case.

[(type-enum :dragon)]

This pattern make it seem like you want to match:

[[:type :dragon]]

Note extra level of brackets here. Is this the case?

Even so I agree that the expansion doesn't look quite right. We should never descend into a seq form like that.

Yes, that's exactly the desired outcome in this case--a tagged value in my naive interpretation. Is the reason it fails whereas the test on :1230 doesn't the fact that it's producing a vector and not a list? Changing the fn to return a list instead of a vector didn't seem to help.

My patch, fwiw, doesn't exhibit that behavior (at least for macros, haven't tested it with fns).

What I mean is don't you want the following instead?

(defna drawable- [Key]
  ([[Thing]] (thing- [Thing]) (fresh [Type] (type- [Thing] [Type]) (drawable- [Type])))
  ([(type-enum :player)] succeed)
  ([(type-enum :dragon)] succeed))

Note that I removed a layer of square brackets.

Nope! I actually want both. I'm doing some temporal logic stuff and I wanted some conveniences for "updating" a fluent, so I wanted to distinguish between the "key part" and the "value part" of the arguments. It looks silly for facts with no "value part", but it lets me write procedures and fns something like this:

(defrel heldo Time Fluent)
(defrel ¬heldo Time Fluent)
(declare fluent-obtainedo) ; most recent 'held' not terminated by a '¬held', or fail
(defn alter-fluent [Time Rel Key NewVal]
  ;todo: error check, ensure old != new, old obtains, new does not obtain
  (doseq [old-val (run* [old-val] (fluent-obtainedo Time [Rel Key old-val]))]
    (fact ¬heldo Time [Rel Key old-val]))
  (fact heldo Time [Rel Key NewVal]))
. . .
(fact heldo 0 ['pos [0] [0 0]])
. . .
(alter-fluent 1 'pos [0] [1 1])

And I write all the non-temporal fluents that way too for consistency and to help prevent mistakes.

I'll try to give a closer look at this issue over the weekend.

We're thinking about a more general solution here: http://github.com/clojure/core.logic/wiki/Better-syntax-support

Why don't you return a vector like Clojure does?

Return a vector like Clojure.

The patch is not correctly formatted with attribution.

Use git format-patch instead of git diff, to hopefully provide the right patch format.

fixed, http://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/commit/b06905863a9b0ce3618634d8fe0effb3aefd4063

This is the thread where Max Penet suggested to have 0-arity versions of the two fns:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/clojure/IRlN-4LH_U0

applied - thanks!

Any

I would prefer to see this, and other interop/reflective items, in a separate contrib lib.

Thanks for the feedback, Stu. Is there an existing contrib lib for stuff like this? Or should I create one?

clj-964-add-require-of-clojure-set-patch1.txt dated March 31, 2012 applies cleanly as of latest master. It simply adds a require of clojure.set to test_clojure/rt.clj. I verified that if that test was the only one, it does fail without the require, and passes with it. I also verified that every other test file succeeds on its own without any further changes.

Patch applies cleanly against 4004d267e124f12b65b0d7fb6522f32a75e3c4fb. Submitter is a confirmed CA signer.

Patch containing implementation, test, and documentation.

Any chance we could get some discussion going on this?

I'd love to see this discussed.

So... how about it? Thoughts?

patch still applies cleanly to master, tests pass

there is a warning when you run the tests though:

[java] Testing clojure.test-clojure.keywords
[java]
[java] Testing clojure.test-clojure.load
[java] WARNING: with-bindings already refers to: #'clojure.core/with-bindings in namespace: clojure.test-clojure.require-scratch, being replaced by: #'clojure.main/with-bindings
[java]
[java] Testing clojure.test-clojure.logic
[java]
[java] Testing clojure.test-clojure.macros

Vetted. Patch is good, although it needs docstring updates in 'require'

Not Vetted. I can't remember what the names mean. Ready for Rich. That's "Test" right?

My mistake. The docstring is included in 'require', but not in 'refer', which also changed. But the public API of 'refer' did not change. So this patch is good.

Not "Test." Screened. The patch is Screened. I hate this.

Patch applied.