I was helping my son with his math homework tonight, working with medians and wrote the following below. As I was looking at it, I was wondering:
1) Is this an idiomatic use for let - is there too much code for middle-position in the let? 2) Should 2 be on its own line at the end of my function really be on the line above? 3) Is it becoming idiomatic to be using square brackets in the let? 4) Are my variable names more verbose than what you'd see in mature scheme code? 5) If this was a piece of production code, would it be ok or make an experienced schemer cringe? Hopefully the formatting from DrScheme was preserved in this post: (define (median alist) (let ((sorted-list (sort alist <)) (middle-position (- (quotient (length alist) 2) 1))) ; subtract 1 since list-ref position starts at zero (if (odd? (length alist)) (list-ref alist middle-ref) (/ (+ (list-ref sorted-list middle-position) (list-ref sorted-list (+ 1 middle-position))) 2)))) Thanks for any feedback - hopefully I'm not going to ignite a war about formatting. I just like to see my coding style mature from beginner to advanced beginner :) Scott Hickey _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
