[erlang-questions] Maze alternate example for Rosetta Code

[Tony Rogvall]

Nice. I did not know that you used hack games :-)
I do need help to make a nice Erlang version of pacman,
I did a lousy port to Erlang and it is a really bad example
for anyone that want to check out the language.

Please?

/Tony


> On 26 aug 2016, at 14:55, Richard Carlsson <carlsson.richard@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> Couldn't resist - last time I did one of these was using Sinclair Basic in 1985. Aiming for compact rather than maintainable, I get the following (36 lines); however, making it pretty would only add maybe a dozen lines:
> 
> %%% @author Richard Carlsson <carlsson.richard@REDACTED>
> %%% @copyright (C) 2016, Richard Carlsson
> 
> -module(maze).
> 
> -export([print/2, build/2]).
> 
> print(W, H) ->
>     M = build(W, H),
>     io:put_chars([[[array:get(R*(W*2+1)+C, M) || C <- lists:seq(0,W*2)], $\n]
>                   || R <- lists:seq(0,H*2)]).
> 
> build(W, H) when is_integer(W), is_integer(H), W > 0, H > 0 ->
>     M = array:new((W*2+1)*(H*2+1), {default,$X}),
>     build(rand:uniform(W)*2-1, rand:uniform(H)*2-1, (W*2+1), (H*2+1), M).
> 
> build(X, Y, W, H, M) ->
>     move([D || {_,D} <- lists:sort(lists:zip([rand:uniform() || _<-"...."],
>                                              [{0,-2},{0,2},{2,0},{-2,0}]))],
>          X, Y, W, H, array:set(Y*W+X, $\s, M)).
> 
> move([{Dx,Dy}|Ds], X, Y, W, H, M) ->
>     X1 = X + Dx, Y1 = Y + Dy,
>     move(Ds, X, Y, W, H,
>          if X1 > 0, X1 < W, Y1 > 0, Y1 < H ->
>                  case array:get(Y1*W+X1, M) of
>                      $\s -> M;
>                      _   -> build(X1, Y1, W, H,
>                                   array:set(((Y+Y1) div 2)*W + (X+X1) div 2,
>                                             $\s, M))
>                  end;
>             true -> M
>          end);
> move([], _X, _Y, _W, _H, M) ->
>     M.
> 
> 
> 
>         /Richard
> 
> 2016-08-26 7:03 GMT+02:00 Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@REDACTED>:
> How large should Erlang code for the Rosetta "maze generation"
> task be?  I don't know, but here's a data point.  I did it in
> my Smalltalk.
> - roughly 90 lines
> - 12 lines of comments
> - 25 lines are devoted to generating the output,
>   including terminal ESC sequences.
> - I used the algorithm described in the task page.
> - I wrote shamelessly compact code instead of well
>   documented stuff.  Maintainability shmaintainability.
> - I proudly avoided creating any objects other than one
>   mutable 2D array of bytes.
> - It would have been better to copy the F# code.  Sigh.
> 
> Here's another data point: it's going to be hard to beat
> Haskell (67 lines).  The J answer manages it because J is
> particularly expressive (if you can call it that...) with
> arrays, like its ancestor APL.  Erlang is not.
> 
> If you can write *maintainable* Erlang code for this problem
> in 120 lines, you deserve some sort of prize.  (I do not call
> the Haskell answer particularly readable.)
> 
> You could, of course, cheat a bit by copying the F# version
> and using the process dictionary to hold the maze.
> E.g.,
> let removeWallBetween (x1,y1) (x2,y2) =
>     if x1 <> x2 then
>        horizWalls.[min x1 x2, y1] <- false
>     else
>        vertWalsl.[x1, min y1 y2] <- false
> =>
>     remove_wall_between(X, Y1, X, Y2) ->
>         put({v,X,min(Y1,Y2)}, false);
>     remove_wall_between(X1, Y, X2, Y) ->
>         put({h,min(X1,X2),Y}, false).
> 
> Not a thing I'd normally recommend, but if this is in its
> own process, you might get away with it.
> 
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