Question

makelist is a procedure that takes an item and an integer n and returns the item n amount of times.

(define (makelist (n item)
    (cond
      [(null? item) '()]
      [else (cons item (makelist (- n 1)))])))

my procedure returns a syntax error, can anybody help me out?

Answer 1

You can just use: (make-list n item) 🙂

Your syntax error is due to incorrect define.

It should be:

(define (makelist n item) ...  

Note that you have a extra ( before the n.