Top "Scheme" questions

Benefits of learning scheme?

I've just started one of my courses, as classes just began 2 weeks ago, and we are learning Scheme right now …

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Can I use Common Lisp for SICP or is Scheme the only option?

Also, even if I can use Common Lisp, should I? Is Scheme better?

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What is the difference between quote and list?

I know that you can use ' (aka quote) to create a list, and I use this all the time, …

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Continuations in Clojure

I read somewhere where rich hickey said: "I think continuations might be neat in theory, but not in practice" I …

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Dr Racket problems with SICP

I'm working through SICP. Currently, in the first chapter, I'm having problems getting Racket to let me redefine "primitives". For …

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How do you express Boolean negation in Scheme?

In C and C++, the ! negates the result: if( !( a == b ) ) In Scheme, I found only eq?. How do I …

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Functional Programming: what is an "improper list"?

Could somebody explain what an "improper list" is? Note: Thanks to all ! All you guys rock!

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Lisp and Erlang Atoms, Ruby and Scheme Symbols. How useful are they?

How useful is the feature of having an atom data type in a programming language? A few programming languages have …

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How to turn a list of string into one string in scheme?

For example I have (list "a" "1" "b" "2" "c" "3"). Now I want to turn this list into one "a1b2c3". …

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String split function

I am just wondering if there is the string split function? Something like: > (string-split "19 2.14 + 4.5 2 4.3 / - *") '("19" "2.14" "+" "4.5" "2" "4.3" "/" "-" "*") I haven't …

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