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| author | Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name> | 2022-08-24 14:40:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> | 2022-08-24 23:27:54 -0400 |
| commit | cc32cd41f74c642583837b43444646d52b3fd5da (patch) | |
| tree | 11de168365afa4410c277de66d909270c3a69f1e /gnu/services/configuration.scm | |
| parent | 147f8f19f844b8acc602ddcb49b4a1c0b9226c4d (diff) | |
services: configuration: Add maybe-value exported procedure.
* gnu/services/configuration.scm (maybe-value): New procedure.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/services/configuration.scm')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/services/configuration.scm | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/services/configuration.scm b/gnu/services/configuration.scm index a9426066b9..60965486a7 100644 --- a/gnu/services/configuration.scm +++ b/gnu/services/configuration.scm @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ define-maybe define-maybe/no-serialization %unset-value + maybe-value maybe-value-set? generate-documentation configuration->documentation @@ -315,6 +316,15 @@ does not have a default value" field kind))) "Predicate to check whether a 'maybe' value was explicitly provided." (not (eq? %unset-value value))) +;; Ideally there should be a compiler macro for this predicate, that expands +;; to a conditional that only instantiates the default value when needed. +(define* (maybe-value value #:optional (default #f)) + "Returns VALUE, unless it is the unset value, in which case it returns +DEFAULT." + (if (maybe-value-set? value) + value + default)) + ;; A little helper to make it easier to document all those fields. (define (generate-documentation documentation documentation-name) (define (str x) (object->string x)) |