Arc Forum | This is exactly what Scheme's letrec does. Try it in mzscheme, which you will ha...

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2 points by vrk 6116 days ago | link | parent

This is exactly what Scheme's letrec does. Try it in mzscheme, which you will have installed if you're playing with arc1:

  (letrec ((foo (lambda (x) (bar x))) 
           (bar (lambda (x) (+ 1 x)))) 
    (foo 5))

(As an aside, it's beginning to be obvious how many redundant parentheses Scheme and most other Lisps have.)

1 point by cchooper 6116 days ago | link

letrec won't work for non-function definitions, for example:

  (letrec ((x 5)
           (y x))
    y)

For this, you need let-star (not sure how to write that in markdown), but let-star doesn't give you forward reference, so nothing is quite right.

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5 points by shiro 6116 days ago | link

Oh, if you want that, check out letrec*.

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1 point by cchooper 6116 days ago | link

That's it, perfectly!

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4 points by pg 6116 days ago | link

You can just write let* so long as there is a space after the asterisk.

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1 point by cchooper 6116 days ago | link

Ah, the problem was I had a comma after it. Thanks.

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1 point by andreyf 5805 days ago | link

let*, huh?

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