[racket] Making a Racket function "recallable"

Danny,

Thanks for the explanations.  These are powerful ideas.  It appears not to
generate the sequence until needed, very nice.

How could I modify this to do the "less than n" idea?

-joe

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at cs.wpi.edu> wrote:

> >  (let ([fib-sequence (in-producer fib 'donttellmecauseithurts)])
>
> I realize that I forgot to add explanation.
>
> This line creates a "sequence" by repeatedly calling your fib
> function. in-producer will continue to call fib until it sees the
> second argument.  But since the fibonacci numbers don't end, I want to
> tell in-producer to go on forever, so I passed it something that fib
> won't ever produce.
>
> ... and It's from a song by the music group No Doubt.  Why?  Dunno.
> Valentine's Day brought it to mind for some reason.  :)
>
>
> The second part:
>
>  ;; Let's wrap it and turn it into a stream that remembers...
>   (sequence->stream fib-sequence)
>
> turns the sequence into another sequence.  But this one will remember
> its previous values as we walk across it.
>
>
> So when we do start walking the streamified sequence, we can do that
> repeatedly without losing the old values.
>
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