[racket-dev] Please help me to fix the code

On May 30, 2011, at 7:17 PM, Yingjian Ma wrote:

> Hi All,
>  
> I wrote a piece of code to count the occurrance of a letter in a list.  But it gave me an error saying "#<procedure:...uments..."
>  
> The code is below:
>  
> (define (count-matches s l)
>       (cond
>      [(empty? l) 0]    
>      [(equal? s (first l)) (lambda (i)(+ i 1))]

What's this lambda doing here? 


>      [else (count-matches s (rest l))]))
>  
> Where the s is a letter and l is a list.  To use it as an example, I typed
>  
> (count-matches 'f '(f )) 
>  
> and got the error.  The right result should be 1.
>  
> Do I need to initialize i?  If so, how can I do it?
>  
> Note that the keywords that I can use are pretty much used in the code.  If the solution needs keywords outside this post, it may not be useful to me.
>  
> Thank you very much.   
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