''Сonstraint'' versions of the arithmetic operations
The
celsius-fahrenheit-converter
procedure is cumbersome when compared with a more expression-oriented style of definition, such as
(define (celsius-fahrenheit-converter x)
(c+ (c* (c/ (cv 9) (cv 5))
x)
(cv 32)))
(define C (make-connector))
(define F (celsius-fahrenheit-converter C))
Here
c+
,
c*
, etc. are the ''constraint'' versions of the arithmetic operations. For example,
c+
takes two connectors as arguments and returns a connector that is related to these by an adder constraint:
(define (c+ x y)
(let ((z (make-connector)))
(adder x y z)
z))
Define analogous procedures
c-
,
c*
,
c/
, and
cv
(constant value) that enable us to define compound constraints as in the converter example above.