[plt-scheme] Reverse engineering of procedures

From: Arie van Wingerden (apwing at zonnet.nl)
Date: Mon Mar 14 11:17:27 EST 2005

Thanks John,

 that does the trick!
But I read in "PLT DrScheme: Programming Environment Manual" in 
paragraph "2.1 Buttons"  the following:
    The Stepper works only for programs using the Beginning Student 
language level.
That is probably outdated I guess??

But of course I should have tried it anyway :-)

Thanks,
    Arie.

John Clements wrote:

>
> On Mar 14, 2005, at 10:33 AM, Arie van Wingerden wrote:
>
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>> Hi Schemers,
>>
>> since some time I am working through 'The Little Schemer' using 
>> DrScheme.
>> Now I have reached the function multirember&co on page 137 and I am 
>> kinda stuck; below is the code.
>
>
> ...
>
>> What I cannot really grasp at the moment is what exactly the 
>> generated function (col) will be upon the next call of multirember&co.
>> To be precise, given the piece of code:
>>      ((eq? (car lat) a)
>>       (multirember&co a
>>                       (cdr lat)
>>                       (lambda (newlat seen)
>>                         (col newlat (cons (car lat) seen)))))
>> what is the form of the lambda afterwards (just before calling 
>> multirember&co again?
>>
>> So I tried to find a way to debug.
>> I already found out:
>>    - the stepper does not work because lambda's are being used 
>> without being a definition
>
>
> Argh!  The stepper works _perfectly_ on this example.  Set the 
> language level to "Intermediate with (lambda)."  I stepped through 
> your code (well, Matthias' code actually) just fine (after removing 
> that stray "print") in the stepper.
>
> Please try again, and let me know if you have any problems.
>
> John Clements
>
> p.s.: my comments are based on DrScheme v209.  In earlier versions, 
> the stepper may not work for Intermediate with (lambda).
>



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