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It's been a few months since I've touched Scheme and decided to implement a command line income partitioner using Scheme.

My initial implementation used plain recursion over the continuation, but I figured a continuation would be more appropriate to this type of program. I would appreciate it if anyone (more skilled with Scheme than I) could take a look at this and suggest improvements. I'm that the multiple (display... lines is an ideal opportunity to use a macro as well (I just haven't gotten to macros yet).

(define (ab-income)
  (call/cc
   (lambda (cc)
     (let
         ((out (display "Income: "))
          (income (string->number (read-line))))
       (cond
         ((<= income 600)
          (display (format "Please enter an amount greater than $600.00~n~n"))
          (cc (ab-income)))
         (else
          (let
              ((bills    (* (/ 30 100) income))
               (taxes    (* (/ 20 100) income))
               (savings  (* (/ 10 100) income))
               (checking (* (/ 40 100) income)))
            (display (format "~nDeduct for bills:---------------------- $~a~n" (real->decimal-string bills 2)))
            (display (format "Deduct for taxes:---------------------- $~a~n" (real->decimal-string taxes 2)))
            (display (format "Deduct for savings:-------------------- $~a~n" (real->decimal-string savings 2)))
            (display (format "Remainder for checking:---------------- $~a~n" (real->decimal-string checking 2))))))))))

Invoking (ab-income) asks for input and if anything below 600 is provided it (from my understanding) returns (ab-income) at the current-continuation. My first implementation (as I said earlier) used plain-jane recursion. It wasn't bad at all either but I figured every return call to (ab-income) if the value was below 600 kept expanding the function.

(please correct me if that apprehension is incorrect!)

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Antal S-Z
This was an excellent answer. Thank you so much - I got a good dose of theory and practical explanation; precisely (if not more) than what I had wanted.Thank you very much!
Ixmatus