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5.3.2

4 Contracts

This library is unstable; compatibility will not be maintained. See Unstable: May Change Without Warning for more information.

 (require unstable/contract)

procedure

(non-empty-string? x)  boolean?

  x : any/c
Returns #t if x is a string and is not empty; returns #f otherwise.

Equivalent to (between/c 1 65535).

Equivalent to (between/c 0 65535).

Equivalent to (or/c path-string? (symbols 'up 'same)).

The subsequent bindings were added by Ryan Culpepper.

procedure

(if/c predicate then-contract else-contract)  contract?

  predicate : (-> any/c any/c)
  then-contract : contract?
  else-contract : contract?
Produces a contract that, when applied to a value, first tests the value with predicate; if predicate returns true, the then-contract is applied; otherwise, the else-contract is applied. The resulting contract is a flat contract if both then-contract and else-contract are flat contracts.

For example, the following contract enforces that if a value is a procedure, it is a thunk; otherwise it can be any (non-procedure) value:
Note that the following contract is not equivalent:

(or/c (-> any) any/c) ; wrong!

The last contract is the same as any/c because or/c tries flat contracts before higher-order contracts.

A contract that describes the failure result arguments of procedures such as hash-ref.

Equivalent to (if/c procedure? (-> any) any/c).

procedure

(rename-contract contract name)  contract?

  contract : contract?
  name : any/c
Produces a contract that acts like contract but with the name name.

The resulting contract is a flat contract if contract is a flat contract.

The subsequent bindings were added by Asumu Takikawa.

procedure

(option/c contract)  contract?

  contract : contract?
Creates a contract that acts like contract but will also accept #f. Intended to describe situations where a failure or default value may be used.

The subsequent bindings were added by Carl Eastlund <cce@racket-lang.org>.

This contract recognizes Scheme truth values, i.e., any value, but with a more informative name and description. Use it in negative positions for arguments that accept arbitrary truth values that may not be booleans.

procedure

(sequence/c elem/c ...)  contract?

  elem/c : contract?
Wraps a sequence, obligating it to produce as many values as there are elem/c contracts, and obligating each value to satisfy the corresponding elem/c. The result is not guaranteed to be the same kind of sequence as the original value; for instance, a wrapped list is not guaranteed to satisfy list?.

Examples:

> (define/contract predicates
    (sequence/c (-> any/c boolean?))
    (in-list (list integer?
                   string->symbol)))
> (for ([P predicates])
    (printf "~s\n" (P "cat")))

#f

predicates: broke its contract

 promised: boolean?

 produced: 'cat

 in: the range of

     ...

     ...

      (sequence/c predicate/c)

 contract from: (definition predicates)

 blaming: (definition predicates)

 at: eval:2.0

> (define/contract numbers&strings
    (sequence/c number? string?)
    (in-dict (list (cons 1 "one")
                   (cons 2 "two")
                   (cons 3 'three))))
> (for ([(N S) numbers&strings])
    (printf "~s: ~a\n" N S))

1: one

2: two

numbers&strings: broke its contract

 promised: string?

 produced: 'three

 in: (sequence/c number? string?)

 contract from: (definition numbers&strings)

 blaming: (definition numbers&strings)

 at: eval:4.0

The subsequent bindings were added by Neil Toronto <neil.toronto@gmail.com>.

procedure

(treeof elem-contract)  contract?

  elem-contract : contract?
Identifies values that meet the contract elem-contract, lists of such values, lists of lists, and so on.

Examples:

> (define number-tree/c (treeof number?))
> (flat-contract? number-tree/c)

#t

> (define number-tree? (flat-contract-predicate number-tree/c))
> (number-tree? 4)

#t

> (number-tree? '(4 5))

#t

> (number-tree? '((4 5) 6))

#t

> (number-tree? '(4 . 5))

#f