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Interleaving streams in Racket
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#lang racket | |
;; produce a new stream with the elements of the given streams interleaved | |
(define (streams-interleave . streams) | |
(letrec ([loop (lambda (streams) | |
(let ([next ((car streams))]) | |
(cons (car next) | |
(thunk (loop (append (cdr streams) (list (cdr next))))))))]) | |
(thunk (loop streams)))) | |
;; using interleave on some streams | |
(define (ones) (cons 1 ones)) | |
(define (twos) (cons 2 twos)) | |
(define (threes) (cons 3 threes)) | |
(define interleaved (streams-interleave ones twos threes)) |
Thanks Pierre! Good catch, corrected ;-)
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The second
letrec
is unnecessary, a simplelet
would be enough.And in fact, this doesn't work!
Try inserting the list of natural numbers and you'll get only 1s from it.