[erlang-questions] The reason for "no case clause matching" error?

[Zvi]

Yoel, just a minor comment:

I would use [Lhs|P] or [Lhs]++P instead of  lists:append([Lhs], P)  :)
This is essentially the same as CONS in Lisp.

Zvi


Yoel Jacobsen-2 wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I want to implement some sort of list partitioning in Erlang.
> 
> 
> The ppar function should work like that:
> 
> ppar [2,2,3] -> [[[2],[2],[3]], [[2],[2,3]], [[2,2],[3]],[ [2,2,3]]]
> ppar [2,2,3,4] -> [[[2],[2],[3],[4]], [[2],[2],[3,4]], [[2],[2,3],[4]],
> [[2],[2,3,4]], [[2,2],[3],[4]], [[2,2],[3,4]], [[2,2,3],[4]], [[2,2,3,4]]]
> 
> 
> This is the code I have written:
> 
> -module(ppar).
> -export([ppar/1]).
> 
> 
> sp(Lhs, []) ->
>     [[Lhs]];
> sp(Lhs, Rhs) ->
>     [lists:append([Lhs], P) || P <- ppar(Rhs)].
> 
> ppar([]) ->
>     [[[]]];
> ppar([H|[]]) ->
>     [[[H]]];
> ppar(Lst)  ->
>     [SP ||
>     N <- lists:seq(1,length(Lst)),
>     Lhs = lists:sublist(Lst, 1, N),
>     Rhs = lists:sublist(Lst, N+1, length(Lst)),
>     SP <- sp(Lhs, Rhs)].
> 
> Yet, when I try it I get an error:
> 
> 1> ppar:ppar([1,2,3]).
> ** exception error: no case clause matching [1]
>      in function  ppar:'-ppar/1-lc$^0/1-0-'/2
> 
> Why is that?
> 
> Yoel
> 
> 
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