14.2 Invoking Units

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▼ | 14 | Units

14.1 | Signatures and Units
14.2 | Invoking Units
14.3 | Linking Units
14.4 | First-Class Units
14.5 | Whole-module Signatures and Units
14.6 | Contracts for Units
14.7 | unit versus module

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#### 14.2`` Invoking Units

The simple-factory@ unit has no imports, so it can be invoked directly using invoke-unit:

> > (require "simple-factory-unit.rkt")
> > (invoke-unit simple-factory@)
> Factory started.

The invoke-unit form does not make the body definitions available, however, so we cannot build any toys with this factory. The define-values/invoke-unit form binds the identifiers of a signature to the values supplied by a unit (to be invoked) that implements the signature:

> > (define-values/invoke-unit/infer simple-factory@)
> Factory started.
> > (build-toys 3)
> (list (toy 'blue) (toy 'blue) (toy 'blue))

Since simple-factory@ exports the toy-factory^ signature, each identifier in toy-factory^ is defined by the define-values/invoke-unit/infer form. The /infer part of the form name indicates that the identifiers bound by the declaration are inferred from simple-factory@.

Now that the identifiers in toy-factory^ are defined, we can also invoke toy-store@, which imports toy-factory^ to produce toy-store^:

> > (require "toy-store-unit.rkt")
> > (define-values/invoke-unit/infer toy-store@)
> > (get-inventory)
> '()
> > (stock! 2)
> > (get-inventory)
> (list (toy 'green) (toy 'green))

Again, the /infer part define-values/invoke-unit/infer determines that toy-store@ imports toy-factory^, and so it supplies the top-level bindings that match the names in toy-factory^ as imports to toy-store@.

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