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Reputation:

Eliminate lambda in Scheme?

I need to eliminate this Scheme lambda construction for my school assignment.

Any ideas how to accomplish this?

(define (foo x)
(letrec
  ((h 
    (lambda (y z)
      (cond
        ((null? y) 'undefined)
        ((null? (cdr y)) (car z))
        (else (h (cddr y) (cdr z)))
        ))))
  (h x x))
)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 163

Answers (1)

Óscar López
Óscar López

Reputation: 235984

Well, you could replace the lambda expression in the letrec with an internal definition:

(define (foo x)
  (define (h y z)
    (cond
      ((null? y) 'undefined)
      ((null? (cdr y)) (car z))
      (else (h (cddr y) (cdr z)))))
  (h x x))

... Or you could extract the h procedure outside of foo, as a helper procedure. Either way the result would be the same.

Upvotes: 3

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