Reverse makes a copy of the top level of a list, backwards. The original list is unchanged.

(reverse '(a b c))  = (c b a)

Recursive implementation of reverse using an auxiliary function:

(define (reverse1 lst) (reverse2 lst '()) )

(define (reverse2 lst answer)
  (if (pair? lst)
      (reverse2 (cdr lst)
                (cons (car lst) answer) )
      answer ) )

Iterative implementation of reverse:

(define (reverse3 lst)
  (do ((answer '() ))
      ((not (pair? lst)) answer)
    (set! answer (cons (car lst) answer))
    (set! lst (cdr lst)) ) )

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