[plt-scheme] Comprehension: An example with five nested loops and four guards

Well, I never would have seen that without David Einstein's comment!
(Any relation, btw? (Do you get that a lot?))

Robby

On 6/4/07, Jens Axel Søgaard <jensaxel at soegaard.net> wrote:
> Robby Findler skrev:
> > On 6/4/07, Jens Axel Søgaard <jensaxel at soegaard.net> wrote:
> >> David Einstein skrev:
> >> > Does this give the set with the lowest sum?
> >>
> >> Yes.
> >
> > The code may in fact produce the one with the smallest sum, but it
> > looks like it would be wrong if there a set of primes that has a
> > higher sum, but a lower smallest prime
>
> Well spotted. For a lot of the Project Euler problems you can
> save time by getting an plausible answer and then check it
> using their web page.
>
> In order to make the code reflect the problem statement, we
> need an "on-new-min-event" in the min-ec comprehension
> in order to keep track of the which set gave the minimum.
>
> Hmm. I think I'll rewrite min-ec.
>
> /Jens Axel
>
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