[racket] please help to change vector to list

On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Yingjian Ma wrote:

> Here is another question.  In (lambda (ls), it seems ls took the value from v.  How does Racket know not pass x to ls as the argument?

"helper" is defined as "(lambda (ls) ...)"
The only place you call "helper", you give it "(vector->list v)"; you don't pass it x, so it doesn't take x.

>   Does it alway takes the right variable?

No, it always takes what is explicitly passed in as arguments :-)

> Also, I want code to keep all the letters that is not a.  It does not work for
> (test 'a #(b c a b a d)).  The result is '(c b).  If you know how to generalize it, please let me know.


In fact, the program you showed us has quite a number of problems: try
(test 'a #(b))
(test 'a #(a a))
(test 'a #(a b a c))
for example.

I would fix this program by starting over from scratch: the program as it stands is not only buggy but too long and complicated.  My solution, and the one I would expect my beginning students to come up with, is about 140 characters long, not including contract and test cases.


Stephen Bloch
sbloch at adelphi.edu