7.3.1 Type Coercion

(require 'coerce)

Function: type-of obj ¶

Returns a symbol name for the type of obj.

Function: coerce obj result-type ¶

Converts and returns obj of type char, number, string, symbol, list, or vector to result-type (which must be one of these symbols).

7.3.2 String-Case

(require 'string-case)

Procedure: string-upcase str ¶

Procedure: string-downcase str ¶

Procedure: string-capitalize str ¶

The obvious string conversion routines. These are non-destructive.

Function: string-upcase! str ¶

Function: string-downcase! str ¶

Function: string-capitalize! str ¶

The destructive versions of the functions above.

Function: string-ci->symbol str ¶

Converts string str to a symbol having the same case as if the symbol had been read.

Function: symbol-append obj1 … ¶

Converts obj1 … to strings, appends them, and converts to a symbol which is returned. Strings and numbers are converted to read’s symbol case; the case of symbol characters is not changed. #f is converted to the empty string (symbol).

Function: StudlyCapsExpand str delimiter ¶

Function: StudlyCapsExpand str ¶

delimiter must be a string or character. If absent, delimiter defaults to ‘-’. StudlyCapsExpand returns a copy of str where delimiter is inserted between each lower-case character immediately followed by an upper-case character; and between two upper-case characters immediately followed by a lower-case character.

(StudlyCapsExpand "aX" " ")   ⇒ "a X"
(StudlyCapsExpand "aX" "..")  ⇒ "a..X"
(StudlyCapsExpand "AX")       ⇒ "AX"
(StudlyCapsExpand "Ax")       ⇒ "Ax"
(StudlyCapsExpand "AXLE")     ⇒ "AXLE"
(StudlyCapsExpand "aAXACz")   ⇒ "a-AXA-Cz"
(StudlyCapsExpand "AaXACz")   ⇒ "Aa-XA-Cz"
(StudlyCapsExpand "AAaXACz")  ⇒ "A-Aa-XA-Cz"
(StudlyCapsExpand "AAaXAC")   ⇒ "A-Aa-XAC"

7.3.3 String Ports

(require 'string-port)

Procedure: call-with-output-string proc ¶

proc must be a procedure of one argument. This procedure calls proc with one argument: a (newly created) output port. When the function returns, the string composed of the characters written into the port is returned.

Procedure: call-with-input-string string proc ¶

proc must be a procedure of one argument. This procedure calls proc with one argument: an (newly created) input port from which string’s contents may be read. When proc returns, the port is closed and the value yielded by the procedure proc is returned.

7.3.4 Line I/O

(require 'line-i/o)

Function: read-line ¶

Function: read-line port ¶

Returns a string of the characters up to, but not including a newline or end of file, updating port to point to the character following the newline. If no characters are available, an end of file object is returned. The port argument may be omitted, in which case it defaults to the value returned by current-input-port.

Procedure: read-line! string ¶

Procedure: read-line! string port ¶

Fills string with characters up to, but not including a newline or end of file, updating the port to point to the last character read or following the newline if it was read. If no characters are available, an end of file object is returned. If a newline or end of file was found, the number of characters read is returned. Otherwise, #f is returned. The port argument may be omitted, in which case it defaults to the value returned by current-input-port.

Function: write-line string ¶

Function: write-line string port ¶

Writes string followed by a newline to the given port and returns an unspecified value. The Port argument may be omitted, in which case it defaults to the value returned by current-input-port.

Function: system->line command tmp ¶

Function: system->line command ¶

command must be a string. The string tmp, if supplied, is a path to use as a temporary file. system->line calls system with command as argument, redirecting stdout to file tmp. system->line returns a string containing the first line of output from tmp.

system->line is intended to be a portable method for getting one-line results from programs like pwd, whoami, hostname, which, identify, and cksum. Its behavior when called with programs which generate lots of output is unspecified.

7.3.5 Multi-Processing

(require 'process)

This module implements asynchronous (non-polled) time-sliced multi-processing in the SCM Scheme implementation using procedures alarm and alarm-interrupt. Until this is ported to another implementation, consider it an example of writing schedulers in Scheme.

Procedure: add-process! proc ¶

Adds proc, which must be a procedure (or continuation) capable of accepting accepting one argument, to the process:queue. The value returned is unspecified. The argument to proc should be ignored. If proc returns, the process is killed.

Procedure: process:schedule! ¶

Saves the current process on process:queue and runs the next process from process:queue. The value returned is unspecified.

Procedure: kill-process! ¶

Kills the current process and runs the next process from process:queue. If there are no more processes on process:queue, (slib:exit) is called (see System).

7.3.6 Metric Units

(require 'metric-units)

http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/MIXF

Metric Interchange Format is a character string encoding for numerical values and units which:

• is unambiguous in all locales;
• uses only [TOG] "Portable Character Set" characters matching "Basic Latin" characters in Plane 0 of the Universal Character Set [UCS];
• is transparent to [UTF-7] and [UTF-8] UCS transformation formats;
• is human readable and writable;
• is machine readable and writable;
• incorporates SI prefixes and units;
• incorporates [ISO 6093] numbers; and
• incorporates [IEC 60027-2] binary prefixes.

In the expression for the value of a quantity, the unit symbol is placed after the numerical value. A dot (PERIOD, ‘.’) is placed between the numerical value and the unit symbol.

Within a compound unit, each of the base and derived symbols can optionally have an attached SI prefix.

Unit symbols formed from other unit symbols by multiplication are indicated by means of a dot (PERIOD, ‘.’) placed between them.

Unit symbols formed from other unit symbols by division are indicated by means of a SOLIDUS (‘/’) or negative exponents. The SOLIDUS must not be repeated in the same compound unit unless contained within a parenthesized subexpression.

The grouping formed by a prefix symbol attached to a unit symbol constitutes a new inseparable symbol (forming a multiple or submultiple of the unit concerned) which can be raised to a positive or negative power and which can be combined with other unit symbols to form compound unit symbols.

The grouping formed by surrounding compound unit symbols with parentheses (‘(’ and ‘)’) constitutes a new inseparable symbol which can be raised to a positive or negative power and which can be combined with other unit symbols to form compound unit symbols.

Compound prefix symbols, that is, prefix symbols formed by the juxtaposition of two or more prefix symbols, are not permitted.

Prefix symbols are not used with the time-related unit symbols min (minute), h (hour), d (day). No prefix symbol may be used with dB (decibel). Only submultiple prefix symbols may be used with the unit symbols L (liter), Np (neper), o (degree), oC (degree Celsius), rad (radian), and sr (steradian). Submultiple prefix symbols may not be used with the unit symbols t (metric ton), r (revolution), or Bd (baud).

A unit exponent follows the unit, separated by a CIRCUMFLEX (‘^’). Exponents may be positive or negative. Fractional exponents must be parenthesized.

• SI Prefixes
• Binary Prefixes
• Unit Symbols

       Factor     Name    Symbol  |  Factor     Name    Symbol
       ======     ====    ======  |  ======     ====    ======
        1e24      yotta      Y    |   1e-1      deci       d
        1e21      zetta      Z    |   1e-2      centi      c
        1e18      exa        E    |   1e-3      milli      m
        1e15      peta       P    |   1e-6      micro      u
        1e12      tera       T    |   1e-9      nano       n
        1e9       giga       G    |   1e-12     pico       p
        1e6       mega       M    |   1e-15     femto      f
        1e3       kilo       k    |   1e-18     atto       a
        1e2       hecto      h    |   1e-21     zepto      z
        1e1       deka       da   |   1e-24     yocto      y

                Factor       (power-of-2)  Name  Symbol
                ======       ============  ====  ======
       1.152921504606846976e18  (2^60)     exbi    Ei
          1.125899906842624e15  (2^50)     pebi    Pi
             1.099511627776e12  (2^40)     tebi    Ti
                1.073741824e9   (2^30)     gibi    Gi
                   1.048576e6   (2^20)     mebi    Mi
                      1.024e3   (2^10)     kibi    Ki

    Type of Quantity      Name          Symbol   Equivalent
    ================      ====          ======   ==========
time                      second           s
time                      minute           min = 60.s
time                      hour             h   = 60.min
time                      day              d   = 24.h
frequency                 hertz            Hz    s^-1
signaling rate            baud             Bd    s^-1
length                    meter            m
volume                    liter            L     dm^3
plane angle               radian           rad
solid angle               steradian        sr    rad^2
plane angle               revolution     * r   = 6.283185307179586.rad
plane angle               degree         * o   = 2.777777777777778e-3.r
information capacity      bit              bit
information capacity      byte, octet      B   = 8.bit
mass                      gram             g
mass                      ton              t     Mg
mass              unified atomic mass unit u   = 1.66053873e-27.kg
amount of substance       mole             mol
catalytic activity        katal            kat   mol/s
thermodynamic temperature kelvin           K
centigrade temperature    degree Celsius   oC
luminous intensity        candela          cd
luminous flux             lumen            lm    cd.sr
illuminance               lux              lx    lm/m^2
force                     newton           N     m.kg.s^-2
pressure, stress          pascal           Pa    N/m^2
energy, work, heat        joule            J     N.m
energy                    electronvolt     eV  = 1.602176462e-19.J
power, radiant flux       watt             W     J/s
logarithm of power ratio  neper            Np
logarithm of power ratio  decibel        * dB  = 0.1151293.Np
electric current          ampere           A
electric charge           coulomb          C     s.A
electric potential, EMF   volt             V     W/A
capacitance               farad            F     C/V
electric resistance       ohm              Ohm   V/A
electric conductance      siemens          S     A/V
magnetic flux             weber            Wb    V.s
magnetic flux density     tesla            T     Wb/m^2
inductance                henry            H     Wb/A
radionuclide activity     becquerel        Bq    s^-1
absorbed dose energy      gray             Gy    m^2.s^-2
dose equivalent           sievert          Sv    m^2.s^-2

(si:conversion-factor "km/s" "m/s" ) ⇒ 0.001     
(si:conversion-factor "N"    "m/s" ) ⇒ 0         
(si:conversion-factor "moC"  "oC"  ) ⇒ 1000      
(si:conversion-factor "mK"   "oC"  ) ⇒ 0         
(si:conversion-factor "rad"  "o"   ) ⇒ 0.0174533 
(si:conversion-factor "K"    "o"   ) ⇒ 0         
(si:conversion-factor "K"    "K"   ) ⇒ 1         
(si:conversion-factor "oK"   "oK"  ) ⇒ -3        
(si:conversion-factor ""     "s/s" ) ⇒ 1         
(si:conversion-factor "km/h" "mph" ) ⇒ -2