[plt-scheme] Re: HTDP Exercise 12.4.2 ... Help!

I've been working on this for the last few hours, and my insert-
everywhere function is now working like so:

(insert-everywhere 'x (list 'h 'o 't))

=>   (list (list 'x 'h 'o 't)
           (list 'x 'o 't)
           (list 'x 't)
           (list 'x))

So, I wish I had some function that would prefix each list with the
"remainder" of the word, such that:

    (list (prefix remainder (list 'x 'h 'o 't))
          (prefix remainder (list 'x 'o 't))
          (prefix remainder (list 'x 't))
          (prefix remainder (list 'x)))

    =>   (list (list 'x 'h 'o 't)
               (list 'h 'x 'o 't)
               (list 'h 'o 'x 't)
               (list 'h 'o 't 'x))

So, based on this I want a function, prefix, which basically takes two
words, appends them, and returns the new list. So, I guess in order to
use this "prefix" function, I need to figure out how to define
"remainder," but now I seem to be stuck again because remainder
depends on information that isn't being passed along (ie, for (prefix
remainder (list 'x 't)), remainder needs to be (list 'h 'o), but I
can't figure out how to do this!

Am I at least on the right path with this? Any tips/hints??

On Apr 26, 1:25 pm, Matthias Felleisen <matth... at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> Yes, and don't forget, you may need *more* auxiliary functions than  
> just insert-everywhere
>
> On Apr 26, 2009, at 1:19 PM, S Brown wrote:
>
>
>
> > Thanks for the input so far. I don't know how I didn't see this
> > before! Instead of calling append on (list s) (first a-low), what I
> > need is to call append on another function which takes as it's
> > arguments a symbol and a single word, which returns a list of words
> > where the symbol has been been inserted before and after each letter
> > in the word. In other words, where insert-everywhere/in-all-words is
> > concerned with a list of words, my new function is only concerned with
> > a single word.
>
> > So, now it's a matter of going through the design process for my new
> > function, which I'm going to call insert-everywhere.
>
> > ;; insert-everywhere: symbol word  ->  list-of-words
> > ;; to create a list-of-words where symbol s is inserted before
> > ;; and after each letter in the word w
> > (define (insert-everywhere s w)
> >    (cond
> >       ((empty? w) ... s ...)
> >       (else ... s (first w) ...
> >             ... (insert-everywhere s (rest w)) ...)))
>
> > I think this makes sense. Now it's a matter of completing each cond
> > line in my new function insert-everywhere.. and figuring out how to
> > actually insert a letter into each position of a word.
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