A Scheme Program -- Generating Gray Binary Code

See The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Generating All Tuples and Permutations, Fascicle 2 by Donald E. Knuth.

Formula (5) on Page 3 told us a recursive algorithm for generating all permutations of 0 and 1 in Gray Binary Code order. I use Scheme language to implement the algorithm. It looks simple and elegant. See below:

; Add a prefix to each element in items.
; e.g. If the items is ((1 3 4)(2 4 5)) and the prefix is 0,
; the result is ((0 1 3 4)(0 2 4 5))
(define (add-prefix prefix items)
  (if (null? items)
      items
      (cons (cons prefix (car items))
            (add-prefix prefix (cdr items)))))

(define (reverse-list items)
  (if (null? items)
      items
      (append (reverse-list(cdr items))
              (list (car items)))))

; Generating all permutation of 0 and 1
; in Gray binary code order
(define (gray-binary-code n)
  (if (= n 0)
      '(())
      (append (add-prefix 0 (gray-binary-code (- n 1)))
              (add-prefix 1 (reverse-list 
                              (gray-binary-code (- n 1)))))))

For example, execute (gray-binary-code 3), we will get:

(list
 (list 0 0 0)
 (list 0 0 1)
 (list 0 1 1)
 (list 0 1 0)
 (list 1 1 0)
 (list 1 1 1)
 (list 1 0 1)
 (list 1 0 0))

I am very glad to write this program as a Scheme beginner. Scheme language tastes good!

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