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

Barco You barcojie@REDACTED
Fri Nov 18 16:12:30 CET 2011


Hi Ladislav,

I can't understand what you mean with your functions. Could you please give
more explanation? Thanks.

Best regards,
Barco
On Nov 18, 2011 6:02 PM, "Ladislav Lenart" <lenartlad@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I add only one or two notes/ideas...
>
> I think the Fun application should look like:
>
>    Value = Fun(lists:reverse(**HeadElements)).
>
> to preserve the order of the Fun arguments.
>
> You can also change it to:
>
>    apply(Fun, lists:reverse(HeadElements)).
>
> You will then be able to use it like this:
>
>    some_fun(A, B, C) -> ...
>
>    some_mod:mapn(fun some_fun/3, [L1, L2, L3]).
>
> instead of the current form:
>
>    some_fun([A, B, C]) -> ...
>
>    some_mod:mapn(fun some_fun/1, [L1, L2, L3])
>
> But this is just a cosmetic issue which comes with
> a performance penalty.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Ladislav Lenart
>
>
> On 18.11.2011 07:45, Ryan Huffman wrote:
>
>> If you wanted to be able to do n-lists I don't think there is a
>> "pretty" way to do it.  You could modify Dmitry's suggestion:
>>
>> mapn(Fun, Lists) ->
>>     mapn(Fun, Lists, []).
>>
>> mapn(_Fun, [[] | _], MappedList) ->
>>     lists:reverse(MappedList);
>> mapn(Fun, Lists, MappedList) ->
>>     {HeadElements, RestLists} = lists:foldl(
>>         fun([H | Rest], {HeadElements, RestLists}) ->
>>                 {[H | HeadElements], [Rest | RestLists]}
>>         end, {[], []}, Lists),
>>     Value = Fun(HeadElements),
>>     mapn(Fun, lists:reverse(RestLists), [Value | MappedList]).
>>
>> and call it like so:
>>
>> mapn(fun(L) ->  lists:sum(L) end, [[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]]).
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:38 PM, 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**
>>> com <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
>>>>
>>>
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