my attempt to do the exercises in sicp.

Monday, July 7, 2008

sicp exercise 2.4



;    Exercise 2.4. Here is an alternative procedural representation of pairs. For this representation,
;    verify that (car (cons x y)) yields x for any objects x and y.
;    (define (cons x y)
;        (lambda (m) (m x y)))
;    (define (car z)
;        (z (lambda (p q) p)))
;    What is the corresponding definition of cdr? (Hint: To verify that this works, make use of the
;    substitution model of section 1.1.5.)




(begin
    (define (cons x y)
      (lambda (m) (m x y)))
    (define (car z)
      (z (lambda (p q) p)))
    (define (cdr z)
      (z (lambda (p q) q)))

(display (car (cons 2 3))) (newline)
(display (cdr (cons 2 3))) (newline)
)

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