Templates for medium to large sized enumerations

Templates really help in clarifying the structure of the function. But once we get a hang of them, we may wait to write them until designing the function. For example, template for atomic non-distinct data is simple:

(define (fn-for-x x)
  (... x))

There is no need to write this in the data definition. Another important case however is that of medium (I'm thinking 10-20) or large (> 20) sized enumerations. It is because enumerations fall under one-of rule which requires as many cond cases as there are number of enumerations. It is a waste of time to write all these cases in a template knowing that the final function would likely be more specific and would need only a subset of cases that require explicit handling while most other would fall under catch-all else clause.

Recently I was working with a card game program where I used enumeration to represent a suit. This data would result in writing 13 cases in cond clause:

;; Card is one of:
;;  - 'ace
;;  - 'two
;;  - 'three
;;  - 'four
;;  - 'five
;;  - 'six
;;  - 'seven
;;  - 'eight
;;  - 'nine
;;  - 'ten
;;  - 'jack
;;  - 'queen
;;  - 'king

;; interp. cards in a plying deck

Instead of writing the template then, we want to wait and see what function needs to be written for this data. For example, if we want to write value-of function that translates a Card to a numerical value in range [1, 10] where 'ten and all picture cards have value of 10, we can write the template (and in this case the function as well) as:

;; Card -> Integer[1, 10]
;; produce numerical value for the given card
;(define (score c) 2)
(define (value-of c)
  (cond [(symbol=? 'ace c) 1]
        [(symbol=? 'two c) 2]
        [(symbol=? 'three c) 3]
        [(symbol=? 'four c) 4]
        [(symbol=? 'five c) 5]
        [(symbol=? 'six c) 6]
        [(symbol=? 'seven c) 7]
        [(symbol=? 'eight c) 8]
        [(symbol=? 'nine c) 9]
        [else 10]))

Although we had to enumerate cases 1 through 9 explicitly, the other four could be handles together in else clause.