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-rw-r--r--gnu/services/configuration.scm10
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diff --git a/gnu/services/configuration.scm b/gnu/services/configuration.scm
index a9426066b9..60965486a7 100644
--- a/gnu/services/configuration.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/configuration.scm
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
define-maybe
define-maybe/no-serialization
%unset-value
+ maybe-value
maybe-value-set?
generate-documentation
configuration->documentation
@@ -315,6 +316,15 @@ does not have a default value" field kind)))
"Predicate to check whether a 'maybe' value was explicitly provided."
(not (eq? %unset-value value)))
+;; Ideally there should be a compiler macro for this predicate, that expands
+;; to a conditional that only instantiates the default value when needed.
+(define* (maybe-value value #:optional (default #f))
+ "Returns VALUE, unless it is the unset value, in which case it returns
+DEFAULT."
+ (if (maybe-value-set? value)
+ value
+ default))
+
;; A little helper to make it easier to document all those fields.
(define (generate-documentation documentation documentation-name)
(define (str x) (object->string x))