Hi Barry, > I noticed that beginning students are able to use list abbreviation > constructors. It doesn't return the list in abbreviated form, however. > > (list 1 2 3) > returns > (cons 1 (cons 2 (cons 3 empty))) > > Is that correct?
I've noticed some overlaps of functionality between the teaching languages myself too. I remember using this feature when I first encountered the list abbreviations though, since for a while I wasn't confident what a nested (list ... (list ...)) might look like in the cons form. As a side note, a lot of people have trouble with the arrangements exercise in section 12, which is a little cleaner to work with using list abbreviations, so thats another possible reason for including this functionality in the beginning student language. Horace. _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
