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;;; unify.ss
;;; Copyright (C) 1996 R. Kent Dybvig
;;; from "The Scheme Programming Language, 2ed" by R. Kent Dybvig
;;; Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
;;; copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
;;; to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
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;;; and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
;;; Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
;;;
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;;; all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
;;;
;;; THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
;;; IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
;;; FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
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;;; FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
;;; DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
(define unify #f)
(let ()
;; occurs? returns true if and only if u occurs in v
(define occurs?
(lambda (u v)
(and (pair? v)
(let f ((l (cdr v)))
(and (pair? l)
(or (eq? u (car l))
(occurs? u (car l))
(f (cdr l))))))))
;; sigma returns a new substitution procedure extending s by
;; the substitution of u with v
(define sigma
(lambda (u v s)
(lambda (x)
(let f ((x (s x)))
(if (symbol? x)
(if (eq? x u) v x)
(cons (car x) (map f (cdr x))))))))
;; try-subst tries to substitute u for v but may require a
;; full unification if (s u) is not a variable, and it may
;; fail if it sees that u occurs in v.
(define try-subst
(lambda (u v s ks kf)
(let ((u (s u)))
(if (not (symbol? u))
(uni u v s ks kf)
(let ((v (s v)))
(cond
((eq? u v) (ks s))
((occurs? u v) (kf "cycle"))
(else (ks (sigma u v s)))))))))
;; uni attempts to unify u and v with a continuation-passing
;; style that returns a substitution to the success argument
;; ks or an error message to the failure argument kf. The
;; substitution itself is represented by a procedure from
;; variables to terms.
(define uni
(lambda (u v s ks kf)
(cond
((symbol? u) (try-subst u v s ks kf))
((symbol? v) (try-subst v u s ks kf))
((and (eq? (car u) (car v))
(= (length u) (length v)))
(let f ((u (cdr u)) (v (cdr v)) (s s))
(if (null? u)
(ks s)
(uni (car u)
(car v)
s
(lambda (s) (f (cdr u) (cdr v) s))
kf))))
(else (kf "clash")))))
;; unify shows one possible interface to uni, where the initial
;; substitution is the identity procedure, the initial success
;; continuation returns the unified term, and the initial failure
;; continuation returns the error message.
(set! unify
(lambda (u v)
(uni u
v
(lambda (x) x)
(lambda (s) (s u))
(lambda (msg) msg)))))