Re: Descending

 Ken Tilton wrote:
 

I am having trouble coding a list traversal segment.
         eg list:
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(a (b) (c (e (h i)) (f (j))) (d (g)))
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I want to traverse this list in "preorder" and get the following
output:
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                 a b c e h i f j d g
>
anyone have a code segment to this?
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thanks....
>
Chris.

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Will this work?:
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(defun dump (list-or-atom)
    (if (listp list-or-atom)
       (dolist (loa list-or-atom)
           (dump loa))
       (format t "~s " list-or-atom)))

 Gauche Scheme:
 (define (dump list-or-atom)
   (cond ((null? list-or-atom) )
         ((list? list-or-atom)
           (begin
             (dump (car list-or-atom))
             (dump (cdr list-or-atom))))
         (#t (format #t ":~s " list-or-atom))))
 (dump '(a (b) (c (e (h i)) (f (j))) (d (g))))
   ===>
          :a :b :c :e :h :i :f :j :d :g          #t