[erlang-questions] [erlang-question] How to comprehend two lists synchronously?

[Barco You]

Yes, Ryan's suggestion is a good generic solution for n lists and it's
tail-recursed.

Hi Dmitry,

Your version is just recursed but not tail-recursed, because your function
needs a piece of memory to stack the intermediate result for every round of
recursive calls. To be tail-recursed, the recursive calls should eliminate
the linearly-increased memory consumption by adding an extra variable
(accumulator) and let the recursive function call it alone for every round.


On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Dmitry Demeshchuk <demeshchuk@REDACTED>wrote:

> Hi, Barco.
>
> Why do you think my version isn't tail-recursed? :) Take a look at
> lists:map/2 implementation, for example. It's just the same.
>
> List comprehensions just serve different purpose: for combinations
> from multiple list sources. My guess is that people need this
> operation more often than mapping over multiple list. Another problem
> is that you should be sure that all those lists have the same length.
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Barco You <barcojie@REDACTED> wrote:
> > Hi Dmitry,
> > What your suggested can really solve my problem, but it's not
> > Tail-Recursion. The tail-recursed solution should look like this;
> > map2(_Fun, [], []) ->
> >    [];
> > map2(Fun, L1, L2) ->
> >    map2(Fun, L1, L2, []).
> > map2(_Fun, [], [], L) ->
> >    lists:reverse(L);
> > map2(Fun, [H1 | T1], [H2 | T2], L) ->
> >    map2(Fun, T1, T2, [Fun(H1, H2) | L]).
> >
> > However, I'm still disappointed with the list comprehension which is
> > different from what I intuitively imagine about it.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Barco
> > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Dmitry Demeshchuk <demeshchuk@REDACTED
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> My guess is you have to zip them together, or just write a
> >> tail-recursed function:
> >>
> >> map2(Fun, [H1 | T1], [H2 | T2]) ->
> >>    [Fun(H1, H2) | map2(Fun, T1, T2)];
> >> map2(Fun, [], []) ->
> >>    [].
> >>
> >> The second option definitely isn't a list comprehension, but it
> >> requires less memory and has lesser complexity.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Barco You <barcojie@REDACTED> wrote:
> >> > Dear Erlangers,
> >> >
> >> > I hope to get a list from two lists like this:
> >> > [{a1,b1}, {a2,b2}, {a3,b3}]      <-     [a1, a2 a3],  [b1, b2, b3].
> >> > But if I use list comprehension, I got:
> >> > 10>  [{D1,D2} ||  D1 <- [a1,a2,a3], D2 <- [b1,b2,b3]].
> >> > [{a1,b1},
> >> >  {a1,b2},
> >> >  {a1,b3},
> >> >  {a2,b1},
> >> >  {a2,b2},
> >> >  {a2,b3},
> >> >  {a3,b1},
> >> >  {a3,b2},
> >> >  {a3,b3}]
> >> >
> >> > So, my questions is how to comprehend list in synchronous way in order
> >> > to
> >> > get what I want, rather than to compose the elements from two lists in
> >> > all
> >> > possible situations.
> >> >
> >> > Thank you,
> >> > Barco
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> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best regards,
> >> Dmitry Demeshchuk
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Dmitry Demeshchuk
>
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