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Section 4.2.3 - Sequencing

Section 4.2.5 - Delayed evaluation

4.2.4 Iteration

(do ((<variable1> <init1> <step1>) ...)
    (<test> <expression> ...)
  <command> ...)

Syntax: All of <init>, <step>, <test>, and <command> are expressions.

Semantics: A do expression is an iteration construct. It specifies a set of variables to be bound, how they are to be initialized at the start, and how they are to be updated on each iteration. When a termination condition is met, the loop exits after evaluating the <expression>s.

A do expression is evaluated as follows: The <init> expressions are evaluated (in some unspecified order), the <variable>s are bound to fresh locations, the results of the <init> expressions are stored in the bindings of the <variable>s, and then the iteration phase begins.

Each iteration begins by evaluating <test>; if the result is false (see section 6.3), then the <command> expressions are evaluated in order for effect, the <step> expressions are evaluated in some unspecified order, the <variable>s are bound to fresh locations, the results of the <step>s are stored in the bindings of the <variable>s, and the next iteration begins.

If <test> evaluates to a true value, then the <expression>s are evaluated from left to right and the values of the last <expression> are returned. If no <expression>s are present, then the value of the do expression is unspecified.

The region of the binding of a <variable> consists of the entire do expression except for the <init>s. It is an error for a <variable> to appear more than once in the list of do variables.

A <step> can be omitted, in which case the effect is the same as if (<variable> <init> <variable>) had been written instead of (<variable> <init>).

(do ((vec (make-vector 5))
     (i 0 (+ i 1)))
    ((= i 5) vec)
  (vector-set! vec i i))  ⇒ #(0 1 2 3 4)

(let ((x ’(1 3 5 7 9)))
  (do ((x x (cdr x))
       (sum 0 (+ sum (car x))))
      ((null? x) sum)))  ⇒ 25
(let <variable> <bindings> <body>)

Semantics: "Named let" is a variant on the syntax of let which provides a more general looping construct than do and can also be used to express recursion. It has the same syntax and semantics as ordinary let except that <variable> is bound within <body> to a procedure whose formal arguments are the bound variables and whose body is <body>. Thus the execution of <body> can be repeated by invoking the procedure named by <variable>.

(let loop ((numbers ’(3 -2 1 6 -5))
           (nonneg ’())
           (neg ’()))
  (cond ((null? numbers) (list nonneg neg))
        ((>= (car numbers) 0)
         (loop (cdr numbers)
               (cons (car numbers) nonneg)
               neg))
        ((< (car numbers) 0)
         (loop (cdr numbers)
               nonneg
               (cons (car numbers) neg)))))
 ⇒ ((6 1 3) (-5 -2))