A few more solutions to the list-palindrome problem. The first solution uses a named let and the second a map with an exit continuation. Both solutions are fragile (assuming eq? will do) and expensive (doing twice as much work as they need to when successful).
(define (list-palindrome? l) ; Return true iff the given list is an element-by-element palindrome. (let lp? ((l1 l) (l2 (reverse l))) (cond ((null? l1) #t) ((eq? (car l1) (car l2)) (lp? (cdr l1) (cdr l2))) (#t #f)))) (define (list-palindrome? l) ; Return true iff the given list is an element-by-element palindrome. (call-with-current-continuation (lambda (k) (map (lambda (a b) (if (not (eq? a b)) (k #f))) l (reverse l)) #t)))