hashtable-update! - update an entry in a hashtable
LIBRARY
(import (rnrs)) ;R6RS
(import (rnrs hashtables)) ;R6RS
SYNOPSIS
(hashtable-update! hashtable key proc default)
DESCRIPTION
Applies
proc
to the value
in
hashtable
associated with
key,
or to
default
if
hashtable
does not contain an association for
key.
The
hashtable
is then changed to associate
key
with the value returned by
proc.
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
The behavior of
hashtable-update!
is equivalent to the
following code, but may be implemented more efficiently in
cases where the implementation can avoid multiple lookups
of the same key:
(hashtable-set!
hashtable key
(proc (hashtable-ref
hashtable key default)))
RETURN VALUES
This procedure returns unspecified values.
EXAMPLES
;; This R6RS example places integers in one of
;; five buckets by using hashtable-update!.
(import (rnrs))
(do ((ht (make-eqv-hashtable))
(i 0 (+ i 1)))
((= i 42)
(hashtable-entries ht))
(hashtable-update! ht (mod i 5)
(lambda (lst)
(cons i lst))
'()))
=> #(0 1 2 3 4)
#((40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0)
(41 36 31 26 21 16 11 6 1)
(37 32 27 22 17 12 7 2)
(38 33 28 23 18 13 8 3)
(39 34 29 24 19 14 9 4))
APPLICATION USAGE
This procedure is commonly used to accumulate values in a hashtable,
as in the example above. There are also other usage patterns such
as counting occurrences of an element.
COMPATIBILITY
This procedure is new to R6RS but compatible variants can be found in
SRFI-69, SRFI-125 and SRFI-126.
ERRORS
This procedure can raise exceptions with the following condition types:
- &assertion (R6RS)
-
The wrong number of arguments was passed or an argument was outside its domain.
In particular,
hashtable
should be a hashtable,
key
and
default
should be in the domain of
hashtable's
hash and equal procedures,
proc
should be a procedure that accepts one arguments, returns one value
and does not mutate
hashtable.
SEE ALSO
hashtable-set!(3scm)
STANDARDS
R6RS
HISTORY
This procedure first appeared in R6RS and a similar procedure can be
found in SRFI-69, which predates R6RS.
AUTHORS
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