Re: [racket-users] Re: Searching diffrences in two lists

2017-06-28 Thread David Storrs
It might also be a good move to read this: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Glenn Hoetker wrote: > If order doesn't matter and it would be okay for duplicates *within* a > list to be deleted, you might make use of > > * Lists can be conver

[racket-users] Re: Searching diffrences in two lists

2017-06-28 Thread Glenn Hoetker
If order doesn't matter and it would be okay for duplicates *within* a list to be deleted, you might make use of * Lists can be converted to sets, via list->set and back again * There are many set methods to yield unions, intersections and differences between sets. See https://docs.racket-lang.o

[racket-users] Re: Searching diffrences in two lists

2017-06-28 Thread Alexander McLin
Consider using the following function https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/pairs.html?q=memq#%28def._%28%28lib._racket%2Fprivate%2Fbase..rkt%29._memq%29%29 It's helpful to sketch out the general steps you'd need to be able to carry out the procedure to solve the problem. My quick sketch would