Scheme Function to reverse elements of list of 2-list

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Published on 2011-02-18T14:58:56Z Indexed on 2011/02/18 15:25 UTC
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This is an exercise from EOPL. Procedure (invert lst) takes lst which is a list of 2-lists and returns a list with each 2-list reversed.

(define invert
  (lambda (lst)
    (cond((null? lst )
         '())
       ((= 2 (rtn-len (car lst)))
        ( cons(swap-elem (car lst))
               (invert (cdr lst))))
       ("List is not a 2-List"))))

;; Auxiliry Procedure swap-elements of 2 element list

(define swap-elem
  (lambda (lst)
    (cons (car (cdr lst))
          (car lst))))

;; returns lengh of the list by calling
(define rtn-len
  (lambda (lst)
    (calc-len lst 0)))        

;; calculate length of the list
(define calc-len
  (lambda (lst n)
    (if (null? lst)
        n
        (calc-len (cdr lst) (+ n 1)))))

This seems to work however looks very verbose. Can this be shortened or written in more elegant way ? How I can halt the processing in any of the individual element is not a 2-list? At the moment execution proceed to next member and replacing current member with "List is not a 2-List" if current member is not a 2-list.

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