Re: project 2 question

Stephen Edwards (edwards@CS.VT.EDU)
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:00:17 -0400

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Date:         Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:00:17 -0400
From: Stephen Edwards <edwards@CS.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: project 2 question

> I have tried many variations of this but I usually get an error message saying
> that the object is not applicable. Could someone help me out with this?

This error always means you have too many parentheses somewhere.

    (cons (beginning) (list-ref variableList num1))
          ^---------^

The expression above attempts to call ("apply", that is) beginning as if
it were a function taking zero arguments.

                                -- Steve

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