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

[Dmitry Demeshchuk]

Okay, I admit, this isn't an "honest" tail-recursed function, since a
list concatenation operator is going to be called at the end. However,
Erlang compiler optimizes such cases and converts them to
tail-recursive:
http://www.erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/myths.html#tail_recursive

Also, I've ran benchmarks with both implementations: mine and yours.
And they result in the same performance.

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Barco You <barcojie@REDACTED> wrote:
> 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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Dmitry Demeshchuk