[plt-scheme] Excersise 14.2.3 - HtDP - Ordered list of binary tree nodes
Charlie Turner wrote:
> Figure 38, tree A on p201 is what I'm working with, I've defined it's
> structure as:
> (a pictures of it is here->
> http://www.htdp.org/2003-09-26/icons/bst1.gif and my function should
> list the nodes as (list 10 15 24 29 63 77 89 95 99) "left-to-right"
> you see)
> The useless function I have which just lists nodes at the moment is as follows:
>
> (define (inorder bt)
> (cond
> [(false? bt) empty]
> [else (cons (node-ssn bt) (append (inorder (node-left bt))
> (inorder
> (node-right bt))))])
>
>> (inorder a-BT)
> (list 63 29 15 10 24 89 77 95 99)
>
> As you'd expect, it's just a listing of all the nodes. I'm clueless as
> to how I can order them left-to-right.
>
> Any help on where to go from here would be greatly appriciated.
Take your example, a-BT, and plug it (mentally) into your code. Is it
false? No. So you'll do the `else' branch of the cond. Now, assume
the function works correctly in the recursive calls. In other words,
write down what
(inorder (node-left a-BT)) and
(inorder (node-right a-BT))
would produce assuming inorder magically works as it is supposed to.
Now you have three pieces of data, the above results and (node-ssn bt),
to work with.
How do you put them together to get the overall expected result?
David