From 71c5c8e85071a67904d1b08d2f7fb0204bee5772 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Sima <ben@bsima.me>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 21:44:05 -0700
Subject: add experimental ml/clojure-like code

---
 com/simatime/core.scm | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+)

diff --git a/com/simatime/core.scm b/com/simatime/core.scm
index 611aaca..155214c 100644
--- a/com/simatime/core.scm
+++ b/com/simatime/core.scm
@@ -39,3 +39,74 @@
   (for-each display args))
 
 (define (prn . a) (apply pr a) (newline))
+
+(define first
+  "Return the first item in the collection."
+  car)
+
+(define next
+  "Returns a list of the items after the first."
+  cadr)
+
+(define (second x)
+  (first (next x)))
+
+(define (ffirst x)
+  (first (first x)))
+
+(define (nnext x)
+  (next (next)))
+
+(define (last coll)
+  "Return the last time in coll, in linear time."
+  (if (next coll)
+      (last coll)
+      (first coll)))
+
+(define (false? x)
+  (eq? #f x))
+
+(define (true? x)
+  (eq? #t x))
+
+(define nil 'nil)
+
+(define (nil? x)
+  (eq? nil x))
+
+(define-syntax when-not
+  (syntax-case
+      (())))
+
+#|
+
+If I implement ML-like interface abstractions in scheme, what would it look like?
+
+
+;; seq
+
+(define-class <seq> () (_first))
+
+
+;; Functor
+
+(define-class <functor> ())
+
+(define-method (fmap (f <procedure>) (coll <functor>)))
+
+
+;; Applicative
+
+;; a -> f a
+(define-method (pure (a <any>)))
+
+;; f (a -> b) -> f a -> f b
+(define-method (<*> (f <procedure>) (a <applicative>) (b <applicative>)))
+
+;; f a -> f b -> f b
+(define-method (*> (a <applicative>) (b <applicative>)))
+
+;; f a -> f b -> f a
+(define-method (<* (a <applicative>) (b <applicative>)))
+
+|#
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