Exercise 2.77
Louis Reasoner tries to evaluate the expression (magnitude z) where z is the object shown in Figure 2.24. To his surprise, instead of the answer she gets an error message from apply-generic, saying there is no method for the operation magnitude on the types (complex). He shows this interaction to Alyssa P. Hacker, who says "The problem is that the complex-number selectors were never defined for complex numbers, just for polar and rectangular numbers. All you have to do to make this work is add the following to the complex package:"
(put 'real-part '(complex) real-part)
(put 'imag-part '(complex) imag-part)
(put 'magnitude '(complex) magnitude)
(put 'angle '(complex) angle)
Describe in detail why this works. As an example, trace through all the procedures called in evaluating the expression (magnitude z) where z is the object shown in Figure 2.24. In particular, how many times is apply-generic invoked? What procedure is dispatched to in each case?
这道题我想的是先把代码跑起来，因为直接按题目提示添加了那4行代码还是会报错，最终能运行的代码如下：
(define (install-rectangular-package)
;; internal procedures
(define (real-part z) (car z))
(define (imag-part z) (cdr z))
(define (make-from-real-imag x y) (cons x y))
(define (magnitude z)
(sqrt (+ (square (real-part z))
(square (imag-part z)))))
(define (angle z)
(atan (imag-part z) (real-part z)))
(define (make-from-mag-ang r a)
(cons (* r (cos a)) (* r (sin a))))
;; interface to the rest of the system
(define (tag x) (attach-tag 'rectangular x))
(put 'real-part '(rectangular) real-part)
(put 'imag-part '(rectangular) imag-part)
(put 'magnitude '(rectangular) magnitude)
(put 'angle '(rectangular) angle)
(put 'make-from-real-imag 'rectangular
(lambda (x y) (tag (make-from-real-imag x y))))
(put 'make-from-mag-ang 'rectangular
(lambda (r a) (tag (make-from-mag-ang r a))))
'done)
(define (install-polar-package)
;; internal procedures
(define (magnitude z) (car z))
(define (angle z) (cdr z))
(define (make-from-mag-ang r a) (cons r a))
(define (real-part z) (* (magnitude z) (cos (angle z))))
(define (imag-part z) (* (magnitude z) (sin (angle z))))
(define (make-from-real-imag x y)
(cons (sqrt (+ (square x) (square y)))
(atan y x)))
;; interface to the rest of the system
(define (tag x) (attach-tag 'polar x))
(put 'real-part '(polar) real-part)
(put 'imag-part '(polar) imag-part)
(put 'magnitude '(polar) magnitude)
(put 'angle '(polar) angle)
(put 'make-from-real-imag 'polar
(lambda (x y) (tag (make-from-real-imag x y))))
(put 'make-from-mag-ang 'polar
(lambda (r a) (tag (make-from-mag-ang r a))))
'done)
;; 复数
(define (install-complex-package)
;; imported procedures from rectangular and polar packages
(define (make-from-real-imag x y)
((get 'make-from-real-imag 'rectangular) x y))
(define (make-from-mag-ang r a)
((get 'make-from-mag-ang 'polar) r a))
;; internal procedures
(define (add-complex z1 z2)
(make-from-real-imag (+ (real-part z1) (real-part z2))
(+ (imag-part z1) (imag-part z2))))
(define (sub-complex z1 z2)
(make-from-real-imag (- (real-part z1) (real-part z2))
(- (imag-part z1) (imag-part z2))))
(define (mul-complex z1 z2)
(make-from-mag-ang (* (magnitude z1) (magnitude z2))
(+ (angle z1) (angle z2))))
(define (div-complex z1 z2)
(make-from-mag-ang (/ (magnitude z1) (magnitude z2))
(- (angle z1) (angle z2))))
;; interface to rest of the system
(define (tag z) (attach-tag 'complex z))
(put 'add '(complex complex)
(lambda (z1 z2) (tag (add-complex z1 z2))))
(put 'sub '(complex complex)
(lambda (z1 z2) (tag (sub-complex z1 z2))))
(put 'mul '(complex complex)
(lambda (z1 z2) (tag (mul-complex z1 z2))))
(put 'div '(complex complex)
(lambda (z1 z2) (tag (div-complex z1 z2))))
(put 'make-from-real-imag 'complex
(lambda (x y) (tag (make-from-real-imag x y))))
(put 'make-from-mag-ang 'complex
(lambda (r a) (tag (make-from-mag-ang r a))))
(put 'real-part '(complex) real-part)
(put 'imag-part '(complex) imag-part)
(put 'magnitude '(complex) magnitude)
(put 'angle '(complex) angle)
'done)
(define (make-complex-from-real-imag x y)
((get 'make-from-real-imag 'complex) x y))
(define (make-complex-from-mag-ang r a)
((get 'make-from-mag-ang 'complex) r a))
(define (real-part z) (apply-generic 'real-part z))
(define (imag-part z) (apply-generic 'imag-part z))
(define (magnitude z) (apply-generic 'magnitude z))
(define (angle z) (apply-generic 'angle z))
(install-rectangular-package)
(install-polar-package)
(install-complex-package)
(define z (make-complex-from-real-imag 3 4))
(magnitude z)
; 结果如下
5.000000000053722
这里要注意2点，一个是要安装这几个包，另一个是在安装这些包之前需要加上
(define (magnitude z) (apply-generic 'magnitude z))，不然会报错。执行
(magnitude z)的函数调用依次是：
(magnitude z)
(magnitude '(complex rectangular 3 . 4))
(apply-generic 'magnitude '(complex rectangular 3 . 4))
(get 'magnitude '(complex))
(apply magnitude (map contents '((complex rectangular 3 . 4))))
(magnitude '(rectangular 3 . 4))
(apply-generic 'magnitude '(rectangular 3 . 4))
(get 'magnitude '(rectangular))
(apply magnitude-rectangular (map contents '((rectangular 3 . 4))))
(magnitude-rectangular '(3 . 4))
5
为了看得更清楚，这里用 magnitude-rectangular 表示 install-rectangular-package 包中的 magnitude 过程。可以看出，在上面的过程中，一共调用了2次 apply-generic，第一次它根据 complex 和 magnitude 去寻找 install-complex-package 包中对应的过程；第二次它根据 rectangular 和 magnitude 找到了 install-rectangular-package 包中的 magnitude 过程。