Abbie Normal @abbienormal@functional.cafe

a shower thought

the SICP uses numbers to illustrate linear processes and tree shaped processes

it calculates lots of math functions: Fibonacci, square roots, lenghty sums, lenghty products...

But operating on numbers is easier because more often than not, operations on numbers are commutative

(+ 2 3) and (+ 3 2) yield the same result

If you operate linearly on lists, the order in which you carry on your operations matters

on tree structures it's even worse

(cons 2 3) and (cons 3 2) yield DIFFERENT results

the recursive version of append does the right thing

the iterative version reverses one of the lists

the order in which you perform the cons operations does matter !

so they are NOT equivalent

these things don't happen (as often) when operating on numbers

this question is a disaster, I made a mess of it

yet, I received tons of useful help

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73408952/early-exiting-a-recursive-procedure

This procedure does work

(define (my-append a-list b-list)
(fold-right cons* '() a-list b-list))

And it also works with more than 2 lists

Now I'm confused

I need some time to figure out why

@ekaitz_zarraga

you were right, my video about continuations is about vanilla continuations

Your video is about delimited continuations instead

I started watching it and I noted some code, here

https://gist.github.com/humanitiesNerd/2c6d2f0333109a1a1b6832a2890b1252

The last procedure is discussed at about 11:56

This little thing here

My god

(define (five)
(reset
(display "First\n")
(display
(shift k
(display "Second\n")
(k 5)
(display "Fourth\n")
))
(display "\nThird\n"))

)

naming is hard

and the scheme community is particularly bad at that

See SRFIs, for example and "ice-9" modules

I mean, really ?

@ArneBab

I'd like to have a window with a grind in it and a game of life running in the grid

A visual representation of a game of life, that is

Do you think Chickadee could be fit for such a thing ?