Cartesian product in Scheme

Question

I've been trying to do a function that returns the Cartesian Product of n sets,in Dr Scheme,the sets are given as a list of lists,I've been stuck at this all day,I would like a few guidelines as where to start.

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Here is the solution I came up with,I'm sure that it's not by far the most efficent or neat but I'm only studing Scheme for 3 weeks so be easy on me.

Answer 1

Here's a concise implementation that is also designed to minimize the size of the resulting structure in memory, by sharing the tails of the component lists. It uses SRFI-1.

(define (cartesian-product . lists)
  (fold-right (lambda (xs ys)
                (append-map (lambda (x)
                              (map (lambda (y)
                                     (cons x y))
                                   ys))
                            xs))
              '(())
              lists))

Answer 2

;compute the list of the (x,y) for y in l
(define (pairs x l)
  (define (aux accu x l)
    (if (null? l)
        accu
        (let ((y (car l))
              (tail (cdr l)))
          (aux (cons (cons x y) accu) x tail))))
  (aux '() x l))

(define (cartesian-product l m)   
  (define (aux accu l)
    (if (null? l) 
        accu
        (let ((x (car l)) 
              (tail (cdr l)))
          (aux (append (pairs x m) accu) tail))))
  (aux '() l))

Source: Scheme/Lisp nested loops and recursion