Modification of the integral procedure
The
integral
procedure used above was analogous to the ''implicit'' definition of the infinite stream of integers in section 3.5.2. Alternatively, we can give a definition of
integral
that is more like
integers-starting-from
(also in section 3.5.2):
(define (integral integrand initial-value dt)
(cons-stream initial-value
(if (stream-null? integrand)
the-empty-stream
(integral (stream-cdr integrand)
(+ (* dt (stream-car integrand))
initial-value)
dt))))
When used in systems with loops, this procedure has the same problem as does our original version of
integral
. Modify the procedure so that it expects the
integrand
as a delayed argument and hence can be used in the
solve
procedure shown above.