How about list comprehension? I envision giving them the 5 rules in "The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages" in Racket notation and some examples in order to get them started.
See the bottom of: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/slpj-book-1987/PAGES/130.HTM /Jens Axel 2012/4/27 Stephen Bloch <[email protected]>: > I'm teaching a sophomore-level "Principles of Programming Languages" course. > We've been working through various chapters of PLAI, but I want to spent the > last week or so of the semester on macros, using the "Racket Guide to Macros" > at http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/macros.html . We'll also be talking > about the C preprocessor as another example of "macros". > > Does anybody have some good reasonably-easy macro-writing exercises I could > assign my students? Something that's not actually solved in the Racket > Guide, but is of comparable difficulty. > > For that matter, if you have good reasonably-easy exercises for the C > preprocessor, that would be helpful too. > > > Stephen Bloch > [email protected] > > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users -- -- Jens Axel Søgaard ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
