cons: mapcar, mappend: doc, tests.

1 files changed, 76 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/cppawk-cons.1 b/cppawk-cons.1
index 6d701f6..ec97a41 100644
--- a/cppawk-cons.1
+++ b/cppawk-cons.1
@@ -96,7 +96,6 @@ cons \- Lisp-like data representation and control flow macros
   uniqual(\fIx\fP)        \fI// deduplicate x with equal equality\fP
 
   mapcar(\fIf\fP, \fIx\fP)      \fI// map list through function f\fP
-
   mappend(\fIf\fP, \fIx\fP)     \fI// map list through f, append results\fP
 
   \fI// array -> list conversion\fP
@@ -1815,9 +1814,84 @@ function's notion of equality.
   uniqual(list(box_str("abc"), "abc")) -> ("abc")
 .ft R
 
+.SS Functions \fImapcar\fP and \fImappend\fP
+.bk
+Syntax:
+
+.ft B
+  mapcar(\fIf\fP, \fIx\fP)
+  mappend(\fIf\fP, \fIx\fP)
+.ft R
+
+Note: this function requires GNU Awk, or any dialect which
+supports GNU-Awk-style indirect functions.
+
+The
+.B mapcar
+and
+.B mappend
+functions call function
+.I f
+once for every element of list
+.I x
+in left to right order, and produce a new list based on the values returned by
+.IR f .
+
+The
+.B mapcar
+function returns a list of the values returned by
+.I f
+which appear in the same order as the calls to
+.IR f .
+
+The
+.B mappend
+function requires all values returned by
+.IR f ,
+except for possibly the last one, to be a list.
+Mappend catenates these lists together, as if using the
+.B append
+function, in the same order as the calls to
+.IR f .
+
+Note: the function value
+.B f
+may be produced by applying the
+.B fun
+or
+.B bind
+operator to an Awk function. These operators are located in the
+.B "<fun.h>"
+library.
+
+Note: function indirection does not work correctly on built-in functions
+on GNU Awk before version 5.2.
+
+.B Examples:
+
+.ft B
+  #include <cons.h>
+  #include <fun.h>
+
+  function sq (\fIx\fP) {
+    return sqrt(\fIx\fP)
+  }
+
+  BEGIN {
+    // prints (("x" . 1) ("x" . 2) ("x" . 3))
+    print sexp(mapcar(bind(\fIcons\fP, "x"), list(1, 2, 3)))
+
+    // prints ("x" 1 "x" 2 "x" 3)
+    print sexp(mappend(bind(\fIlist\fP, "x"), list(1, 2, 3)))
+
+    // prints (0 1 2 3 4 5)
+    print sexp(mapcar(fun(\fIsq\fP), list(0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25)))
+  }
+.ft R
+
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 
-cppawk(1)
+cppawk(1), cppawk-fun(1)
 
 .SH BUGS