Re: [Chicken-users] Generic RDBMS Interface [Was: Re: Creating Windows GUI App]

[John Cowan]

Thomas Chust scripsit:

> > The alist approach I chose can feel unwieldy at times for sure if
> > written manually, but nice when the alist is already formulated
> > elsewhere (which occurs quite a bit in web code) to be passed in.
> 
> That's a good point to keep in mind.

An advantage of the alist approach is that you can use quasiquote to
create it:

(foo `((bar . ,bar-value) (baz . ,baz-value) (quux . ,quux-value)))

This deals nicely with situations where some key values are fixed
at the point of call and others are variable.

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