Muldis::D::Core::Set - Muldis D Set and Maybe specific operators
This document is Muldis::D::Core::Set version 0.138.0.
This document is part of the Muldis D language specification, whose root document is Muldis::D; you should read that root document before you read this one, which provides subservient details. Moreover, you should read the Muldis::D::Core document before this current document, as that forms its own tree beneath a root document branch.
This document describes generic operators that are specific to the Set and Maybe parameterized relation types, and said operators are short-hands for more generic relational operators.
Set
Maybe
This documentation is pending.
function has_member (Bool <-- coll : Set, value : Universal) implements sys.std.Core.Collective.has_member {...}
This function results in Bool:True iff its value argument matches the sole attribute of a tuple of its coll argument (that is, iff conceptually value is a member of coll), and Bool:False otherwise. This function will warn if its 2 arguments are incompatible as per sys.std.Core.Relation.is_subset.
Bool:True
value
coll
Bool:False
sys.std.Core.Relation.is_subset
function has_not_member (Bool <-- coll : Set, value : Universal) implements sys.std.Core.Collective.has_not_member {...}
This function is exactly the same as sys.std.Core.Set.has_member except that it results in the opposite boolean value when given the same arguments.
sys.std.Core.Set.has_member
function value_is_member (Bool <-- value : Universal, coll : Set) implements sys.std.Core.Collective.value_is_member {...}
This function is an alias for sys.std.Core.Set.has_member. This function results in Bool:True iff its value argument matches the sole attribute of a tuple of its coll argument (that is, iff conceptually value is a member of coll), and Bool:False otherwise.
function value_is_not_member (Bool <-- value : Universal, coll : Set) implements sys.std.Core.Collective.value_is_not_member {...}
This function is an alias for sys.std.Core.Set.has_not_member. This function is exactly the same as sys.std.Core.Set.value_is_member except that it results in the opposite boolean value when given the same arguments.
sys.std.Core.Set.has_not_member
sys.std.Core.Set.value_is_member
function insertion (Set <-- set : Set, value : Universal) {...}
This function results in a Set that is the relational union of set and a Set whose sole tuple has the sole attribute value of value; that is, conceptually the result is value inserted into set. As a trivial case, if value already exists in set, then the result is just set.
set
function disjoint_ins (Set <-- set : Set, value : Universal) {...}
This function is exactly the same as sys.std.Core.Set.insertion except that it will fail if value already exists in set.
sys.std.Core.Set.insertion
function deletion (Set <-- set : Set, value : Universal) {...}
This function results in a Set that is the relational difference from set of a Set whose sole tuple has the sole attribute value of value; that is, conceptually the result is value deleted from set. As a trivial case, if value already doesn't exist in set, then the result is just set.
function reduction (Universal <-- topic : Set, func : ValRedCFuncNC, identity : Universal) {...}
This function is a generic reduction operator that recursively takes each pair of input values in topic and applies an argument-specified scalar or nonscalar value-resulting value-reduction function (which is both commutative and associative) to the pair until just one input value is left, which is the result. The value-reduction function to apply is named in the func argument, and that function must have 2 parameters named v1 and v2, which take the 2 input scalar or nonscalar values for an invocation. If topic has zero values, then reduction results in the value given in identity. Note that identity may be changed to take a function name rather than a value, for consistency with func. This function will fail|warn if the |declared type of identity isn't a subtype of the |declared type of the sole attribute of topic.
topic
value-reduction
func
v1
v2
reduction
identity
function Set_from_wrap (set_of.Tuple <-- topic : Relation) {...}
This function results in a Set whose sole attribute is tuple-typed and the attribute values are all the tuples of topic; is a short-hand for a relational wrap of all attributes of topic such that the new tuple-valued attribute is named value.
function Set_from_attr (Set <-- topic : Relation, name : Name) {...}
This function results in a Set consisting of all the values of the attribute of topic named by name. It is a short-hand for a unary projection of just the named attribute plus its renaming to value.
name
function Nothing (Maybe <--) {...}
This named-value selector function results in the only zero-tuple Maybe value, which is known by the special name Maybe:Nothing, aka Nothing, aka empty set aka ∅.
named-value
Maybe:Nothing
Nothing
∅
function just (Just <-- value : Universal) {...}
This selector function results in the Maybe value with a single tuple whose value attribute's value is the value argument.
function attr (Universal <-- topic : Just) {...}
This function results in the scalar or nonscalar value of the sole attribute of the sole tuple of its argument, which always exists when the argument is a Just. Note that this operation is also known as .{*}.
Just
.{*}
function attr_or_default (Universal <-- topic? : array_of.Maybe, default : APTypeNC) {...}
This function results in the scalar or nonscalar value of the sole attribute of the sole tuple of the lowest-indexed of its N topic input element values where said element isn't equal to Nothing, if there is such an element; otherwise, it results in the default value of the scalar or nonscalar data type whose name is given in the default argument. This function is a short-hand for invoking attr_or_value with the result from invoking sys.std.Core.Universal.default.
default
attr_or_value
sys.std.Core.Universal.default
function attr_or_value (Universal <-- topic? : array_of.Maybe, value : Universal) {...}
This function results in the scalar or nonscalar value of the sole attribute of the sole tuple of the lowest-indexed of its N topic input element values where said element isn't equal to Nothing, if there is such an element, and otherwise it results in value. This function will warn if the declared type of value isn't a subtype of the declared type of the attribute. Note that this operation is also known as //. In situations where a Maybe is used analogously to a SQL nullable value, this function is analogous to the N-adic SQL COALESCE function.
//
function order (Order <-- topic : Maybe, other : Maybe, J_ord_func? : OrdDetCFuncNC, J_is_reverse_order? : Bool, N_is_after_all_J : Bool, is_reverse_order? : Bool) {...}
This function is a generic (total) order-determination function for Maybe values. Iff both of its topic and other arguments are identical, this function results in Order:Same. Otherwise, iff both of those 2 arguments are Just values, then the result of this function is the result of applying to those 2 arguments the (total) order-determination function given in its J_ord_func argument, as curried by its J_is_reverse_order argument; to be specific, the order-determination function takes the attribute values of topic and other, not the whole Just values. Otherwise, iff topic is Nothing, this function results in Order:Increase or Order:Decrease respectively when N_is_after_all_J is Bool:False (the default) or Bool:True. Otherwise (iff other is Nothing), this function results in the reverse of when only topic is Nothing. The is_reverse_order argument is applied to the result of this function after all of the other arguments are applied; if it is Bool:False, it does not change the result; if it is Bool:True, then it reverses the result. In situations where a Maybe is used analogously to a SQL nullable value and this function is analogous to the dyadic comparison underlying a SQL "ORDER BY", then J_is_reverse_order designates SQL's "ASC|DESC" and N_is_after_all_J designates SQL's "NULLS FIRST|LAST".
order-determination
other
Order:Same
J_ord_func
J_is_reverse_order
Order:Increase
Order:Decrease
N_is_after_all_J
is_reverse_order
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Darren Duncan (darren@DarrenDuncan.net)
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