[racket] Rookie Question on Functional Languages

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 9 14:44:19 EST 2010

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> (do ([x 10 (- x 1)]) ((zero? x)) (displayln x))

(for ([x (in-range 10 0 -1)]) (displayln x))

Also, it would be nice if the default `step' value for `in-range' was:

  (if (<= start end) 1 -1)

Then my program would be 3 characters shorter.
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu


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