Thunks and Streams Assignment
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Motivation
It is all too easy to make a simple mistake on the Streams_Assignment Streams Lab and have it burn way to much of ones time. We will build some utility functions that will hopefully make our code more clear, as well as raise better errors sooner when we make a mistake.
Code To Use
Code To Implement
| file: | src/main/racket/hw4/hw4.rkt |  |
| functions: | thunk? thunk-that dethunk-that ... |
Thunk Utilities
thunk?
define a function thunk? which returns #t if the specified parameter is a thunk, #f otherwise.
(define (thunk? th)
(error 'not-yet-implemented))
thunk MACRO
define a macro thunk which creates thunk
dethunk
define a function dethunk which takes a thunk parameter th and returns the result of invoking th.
Stream Utilities
plausible-stream?
define a function plausible-stream? which returns #t if the specified parameter is a thunk which when invoked returns a pair whose cdr is a thunk, #f otherwise.
WARNING: what could happen if you called plausible-stream? recursively on the cdr?
next-value-from-stream
define a function next-value-from-stream which takes a stream parameter and returns the next value of that stream.
next-stream-from-stream
define a function next-stream-from-stream which takes a stream parameter and returns the next stream of that stream.
stream-next
BONUS method not officially part of the studio but a good idea.
define a function stream-next which takes a stream parameter and returns a pair of values for the next value and the next stream.
stream-cons
define a function stream-cons which takes two parameters value and stream-prime. if the specified stream-prime parameter is not a thunk then an error should be raised:
(raise (error "not a thunk" stream-prime))
If stream-prime is a thunk it should simply cons value and stream-prime. Do NOT create a thunk.
WARNING: what could happen if you called plausible-stream? on stream-prime?
Stream App
flip-flop-stream
define flip-flop-stream which produces #t #f #t #f #t #f #t #f...
