What is scheme's equivalent of tuple unpacking?

Question

In Python, I can do something like this:

t = (1, 2)
a, b = t

...and a will be 1 and b will be 2. Suppose I have a list \'(1 2) in

Answer 1

A bare-bones idiom is to use apply with lambda where you'd use let, like:

(define t '(1 2))
(apply (lambda (a b)
          ;; code that would go inside let
        )
        t)

The advantage is that it works on any implementation. Of course this can only be used on simple cases, but sometimes that's all you need.