[erlang-questions] Nested for-loops, there has to be a better way to do this

Robert Raschke rtrlists@REDACTED
Thu Jul 30 11:46:34 CEST 2009


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Fred Hebert (MononcQc) <mononcqc@REDACTED
> wrote:

> I find nested lists comprehension to be the easiest to deal with when
> representing nested loops:
>
> [[ Fn(I,J) || J <- GenExp2 ] || I <- GenEXp1 ].
>
> or indented in a different way:
>
>  [[[ Fn(I, J, K) || K <- GenExp3 ]
>                 || J <- GenExp2 ]
>                 || I <- GenExp1 ].
>
> This gives a nested list. If that's not what you want, you could use
> lists:flatten/1 to change that, but overall I find this form to be the
> cleanest (visually speaking).
>

I may be missing something obvious, but ...

1> [ {A,B,C,A+B+C} || A<-lists:seq(1,5), B<-lists:seq(1,5),
C<-lists:seq(1,10) ].
[{1,1,1,3},
 {1,1,2,4},
 {1,1,3,5},
 {1,1,4,6},
 {1,1,5,7},
 {1,1,6,8},
 {1,1,7,9},
 {1,1,8,10},
 {1,1,9,11},
 {1,1,10,12},
 {1,2,1,4},
 {1,2,2,5},
 {1,2,3,6},
 {1,2,4,7},
 {1,2,5,8},
 {1,2,6,9},
 {1,2,7,10},
 {1,2,8,11},
 {1,2,9,12},
 {1,2,10,13},
 {1,3,1,5},
 {1,3,2,6},
 {1,3,3,7},
 {1,3,4,8},
 {1,3,5,9},
 {1,3,6,...},
 {1,3,...},
 {1,...},
 {...}|...]
2>

Robby


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