How to make a scheme program accept inputs

[vitomzev]

I have the following program

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(define (cat . nums)  (apply string-append (map number->string nums)))
 
(define (my-compare a b)  (string>? (cat a b) (cat b a)))
 
(map  (lambda (xs) (string->number (apply cat (sort xs my-compare))))
      '((1 34 3 98 9 76 45 4) (54 546 548 60)))

and I would like it to accept inputs, that I type for example: (my-function '((1 34 3 98 9 76 45 4) (54 546 548 60)))

and then it executes the program and outputs the result
Thanks in advance

[sylwester]

So imagine you have code as an expression that takes data:

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(some-processexpression some-otherargument data1 data2)

You can always make a true refactoring by wrapping it in a fucntion and call it instead:

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(define (my-abstraction-name arg1 arg2)
  (some-processexpression some-otherargument arg1 arg2))

;; call the abstraction instead:
(my-abstraction-name data1 data2)

These are identical programs. The reason is that you can always replace a procedure call with it-s body and replacing the bound variables for their evaluated argument.