I’d use test-assert with member: http://api.call-cc.org/doc/test/test-assert
Bahman Movaqar writes: > On 01/05/2015 10:26 PM, Alex Charlton wrote: >> Just use member. Member returns #f when the element is not contained in the >> list. Your first function will never return #f, since member never returns >> an empty list. > > My mistake. This naive question actually popped up when I was writing > tests...the following will fail where it should pass because "test" > expects an identical value to pass. > (test #t (member a-thing list-of-things)) > So how would you go around this? > >> >> Bahman Movaqar writes: >> >>> I need to check if a list contains an element. There are 2 approaches as >>> far as I could gather: >>> >>> A: (define (member? e l) (not (null? (member e l)))) >>> B: (define (member? e l) (any (lambda (x) (equal? x e)) l)) ;; using >>> srfi-1 >>> >>> Which one do you seasoned CHICKEN'ers recommend in terms of performance >>> and being idiomatic? >>> -- Alex _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
