Getting started with hy (hylang.org), a simple example.

match.hy

#!/usr/bin/env hy
;; match.hy - Getting started with hy (hylang.org), a simple example.
;;
;; As executable, `chmod +x match.hy`:
;;
;;     $ ./match.hy '(.*), (.*)!' 'Hello, world!'
;;     ('Hello', 'world')
;;
;; Developed on hy master 14c412c (after 0.11.1) on Python 3.5.
;;
;;     $ pip install git+https://git@github.com/hylang/hy.git@14c412c#egg=hy
;;
;; To use within Python:
;;
;;     $ python
;;     >>> import hy # Prerequisite to import a .hy file.
;;     >>> import match
;;     >>> match.match('(.*), (.*)!')('Hello, world!')
;;     ('Hello', 'world')

(require hy.contrib.anaphoric)

(import re)


(defn match [pattern]
  "match :: pattern => (string => tuple), tuple of groups matching pattern."
  (let [pattern_re (.compile re pattern)]
    (fn [x]
      (ap-if (.match pattern_re x)
        (.groups it)
        (,)))))


(defn test-match []
  (defn test [matcher arg expected]
    (let [msg (.format "{} => {}" arg expected)]
      (assert (= expected (matcher arg)) msg)))
  (let [matcher (match "Hello, (.*)!")]
    (test matcher "Hello" (,))
    (test matcher "Hello, world!" (, "world")))
  (let [matcher (match "\((\d), (\d)\)")]
    (test matcher "()" (,))
    (test matcher "(7, 8)" (, "7" "8"))))


(defmain [prog pattern x &rest args]
  (test-match)
  (print ((match pattern) x)))