1 ;;;; lily-sort.scm -- improved sorting of symbols, strings, and alists.
3 ;;;; source file of the GNU LilyPond music typesetter
5 ;;;; Copyright 2009--2010 Mark Polesky <markpolesky@yahoo.com>
8 ;; This file implements a LilyPond-specific character-sorting algorithm
9 ;; that can be used to sort lists, alists, etc. consistently and
10 ;; predictably throughout the source code. The primary advantage of this
11 ;; algorithm is that lists are sorted in a more intuitive way, which may
12 ;; allow users to find items faster in the documentation.
14 ;; As an example, a user, looking in the documentation to see if there's
15 ;; a function called "ly:grob?", might assume that there isn't one,
16 ;; since it doesn't appear before "ly:grob-alist-chain" (using the
19 ;; This happens because "-" comes before "?" in the default sort order.
20 ;; But since "?" is more likely to come at the end of a scheme symbol, a
21 ;; more intuitive sort can be achieved by reversing that order.
23 ;; Similarly, non-alphanumeric characters can be ranked in terms of how
24 ;; likely one will be found closer to the end of a symbol. For example,
25 ;; ":" is stronger separator than "-", as can be seen here:
27 ;; "ly:staff-symbol::print"
28 ;; "ly:staff-symbol-referencer::callback"
30 ;; Intuitively, "staff-symbol-referencer" ought to come after
31 ;; "staff-symbol", but since "-" comes before ":" in the default sort
32 ;; order, these symbols are by default listed in the opposite order.
34 ;; Thus the algorithm implemented here ranks the following nine
35 ;; characters (starting with the space character) in order from
36 ;; most-to-least likely to terminate a symbol: " !?<=>:-_". These nine
37 ;; characters are in effect "extracted" from the default order and then
38 ;; "prepended" to it so that they now come first. This is achieved with
39 ;; the function "ly:char-generic-<?".
41 ;; This file defines 3 case-sensitive binary comparison predicates:
42 ;; ly:string<? ly:symbol<? ly:alist<?
43 ;; and their case-insensitive counterparts:
44 ;; ly:string-ci<? ly:symbol-ci<? ly:alist-ci<?
46 ;; Case-insensitive predicates are recommended in general; otherwise
47 ;; symbols like "Y-offset" appear near the top of lists which
48 ;; otherwise include mostly lowercase symbols.
50 (define (ly:char-generic-<? a b ci)
51 (let* ((init-list (string->list " !?<=>:-_"))
52 (mem-a (member a init-list))
53 (mem-b (member b init-list)))
54 (cond ((and mem-a mem-b) (< (length mem-b) (length mem-a)))
57 (else ((if ci char-ci<? char<?) a b)))))
59 (define (ly:char<? a b)
60 (ly:char-generic-<? a b #f))
62 (define (ly:char-ci<? a b)
63 (ly:char-generic-<? a b #t))
65 (define (first-diff-chars str0 str1 ci)
66 (let find-mismatch ((a (string->list str0)) (b (string->list str1)))
67 (cond ((and (null? a) (null? b)) #f)
68 ((null? a) (cons #f (car b)))
69 ((null? b) (cons (car a) #f))
70 ((not ((if ci char-ci=? char=?) (car a) (car b)))
71 (cons (car a) (car b)))
72 (else (find-mismatch (cdr a) (cdr b))))))
74 (define (ly:string-generic-<? a b ci)
75 (let ((mismatch (first-diff-chars a b ci)))
76 (cond ((and mismatch (car mismatch) (cdr mismatch))
77 ((if ci ly:char-ci<? ly:char<?)
78 (car mismatch) (cdr mismatch)))
79 ((and mismatch (cdr mismatch)) #t)
82 (define (ly:string<? a b)
83 "Return #t if string A is less than string B in case-sensitive
85 (ly:string-generic-<? a b #f))
87 (define (ly:string-ci<? a b)
88 "Return #t if string A is less than string B in case-insensitive
90 (ly:string-generic-<? a b #t))
92 (define (ly:symbol<? a b)
93 "Return #t if symbol A is less than symbol B in case-sensitive
95 (ly:string<? (symbol->string a)
98 (define (ly:symbol-ci<? a b)
99 "Return #t if symbol A is less than symbol B in case-insensitive
100 LilyPond sort order."
101 (ly:string-ci<? (symbol->string a)
104 (define (ly:alist<? a b)
105 "Return #t if the first key of alist A is less than the first key of
106 alist B, using case-sensitive LilyPond sort order. Keys are assumed to
108 (ly:string<? (symbol->string (car a))
109 (symbol->string (car b))))
111 (define (ly:alist-ci<? a b)
112 "Return #t if the first key of alist A is less than the first key of
113 alist B, using case-insensitive LilyPond sort order. Keys are assumed
115 (ly:string-ci<? (symbol->string (car a))
116 (symbol->string (car b))))