+Here are some additional homeworks, that will consolidate your understanding of what we've covered in the last weeks of the seminar. Those who are taking the class for credit: since we're so late to post these, and they add up to a substantial chunk of thinking, we won't require you to do them. But we will strongly encourage it. If you'd like to do them, and have us take account of your efforts when deciding on grades, let us know now when you propose to submit the work. (Up to the start of next term would be viable.)
+
+Of course, if you need help or want us to review your efforts, we'll be glad to discuss with you at any later point as well.
+
1. This problem is taken from _The Craft of Functional Programming_ by Simon Thompson, Addison-Wesley 1999 <http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/>:
> it with.
+ As Ken Shan points out, this is an instance of the algorithm
+ for converting name/year citations (like 'see Montague 1970')
+ to numerals corresponding to their ('see [24]'). Except that
+ bibliograpic numerals don't start with zero.
+
+ Give some thought to efficiency: there are straightforward
+ solutions that involve traversing the tree once (in order to,
+ say, construct a suitable mapping from leafs to ints), then
+ traversing it again to do the conversion. Can you find a
+ solution that traverses the tree exactly once, replacing each
+ leaf as soon as you see it?
+
+ Consider a variation in which you must replace each leaf with
+ its number of occurrences in the tree. Is there any way to do
+ that with a single traversal?
+
+ You can assume that the tree is leaf-labeled (no labels on the
+ internal nodes), and that the leafs are, say, chars.
+
Here is [a hint](/hints/assignment_10_hint).
Now, go back to the GS&V assignment from [[assignment7]]. Does the monad you've now crafted enable you to code your implementation of that semantics more elegantly? You can begin by using a composite store of the same sort we used in the hints: a pair of an assignment function `r` and some `h` that associates pegs with entities.
- Is the `h` really essential to your solution? Or could you do everything with a store consisting of a single mapping from variables to entities? (You'd still be working with a State monad, but without the pegs.) Explain why or why not.
+ Are the pegs and the `h` really essential to your solution? Or could you do everything with a store consisting of a single mapping from variables to entities? (You'd still be working with a State monad, but without the pegs.) Explain why or why not.
4. The next two exercises were taken from _The Little Schemer_ Chapter 8.
- Suppose `lst` is a list of Scheme symbols (`'symbols 'are 'things 'written 'like 'this`; a list of them is `'(written like this)`). And that the behavior of `(remove 'sym lst)` is to remove every occurrence of `'sym` from `lst`.
+ Suppose `lst` is a list of Scheme symbols (`'symbols 'are 'things 'written 'like 'this`; a list of them is `'(written like this)`). And suppose that the behavior of `(remove 'sym lst)` is to remove every occurrence of `'sym` from `lst`.
Now we define a function `remove-co` which has the following behavior. It accepts as arguments a symbol, a list, and a handler `k` (I wonder why we named it that). `remove-co` calls `k` with two arguments: first, a list of all the symbols in `lst` that aren't equal to `'sym`, and second, a list of all the symbols in `lst` that are equal to `'sym` (the handler might want to, for example, see what the length of the latter list is).
(insert-co new before after (cdr lst) (lambda (new-lst lefts rights) ________))))))
-6. Go back to the "abSd" problem we presented in [[From List Zippers to Continuations]]. Consider the "tc" solution which uses explicitly passed continuations. Try to reimplement this using reset and shift instead of having an explicit `k` argument. This will likely be challenging but rewarding. The notes on [[CPS and Continuation Operators]], especially the examples at the end, should be helpful. We are of course also glad to help you out.
+6. Go back to the "abSd" problem we presented in [[From List Zippers to Continuations]]. Consider the "tc" solution which uses
+explicitly passed continuations. Try to reimplement this using reset
+and shift instead of having an explicit `k` argument. This will likely
+be challenging but rewarding. The notes on [[CPS and Continuation Operators]], especially the examples at the end, should be helpful. We
+are of course also glad to help you out.
+
+ Consider adding a special symbol `'#'` (pronounced 'prompt') to the
+ mini-language such that
+
+ `"ab#cdSef"` ~~> `"abcdcdef"`
+
+ That is, the rule for `'S'` is to copy the preceding string, but
+ only up to the closest enclosing `'#'` symbol.
7. Can you reimplement your solution to [[assignment9]] using reset and shift?