Zero crossings

Alyssa P. Hacker is designing a system to process signals coming from physical sensors. One important feature she wishes to produce is a signal that describes the zero crossings of the input signal. That is, the resulting signal should be +1 whenever the input signal changes from negative to positive, -1 whenever the input signal changes from positive to negative, and 0 otherwise. (Assume that the sign of a zero input is positive.) For example, a typical input signal with its associated zero crossing signal would be

...1  2  1.5  1  0.5  -0.1  -2  -3  -2  -0.5  0.2  3  4 ...
...0  0   0   0    0    -1   0   0   0    0    1   0  0 ...

In Alyssa's system, the signal from the sensor is represented as a stream sense-data and the stream zero-crossings is the corresponding stream of zero crossings. Alyssa first writes a procedure sign-change-detector that takes two values as arguments and compares the signs of the values to produce an appropriate 0 , 1 , or -1 . She then constructs her zero crossing stream as follows:

(define (make-zero-crossings input-stream last-value)
  (cons-stream
   (sign-change-detector (stream-car input-stream) last-value)
   (make-zero-crossings (stream-cdr input-stream)
                        (stream-car input-stream))))

(define zero-crossings (make-zero-crossings sense-data 0))

Alyssa's boss, Eva Lu Ator, walks by and suggests that this program is approximately equivalent to the following one, which uses the generalized version of stream-map from exercise 3.50 :

(define zero-crossings
  (stream-map sign-change-detector sense-data <expression>))

Complete the program by supplying the indicated <expression> .

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