Computing two dimensional functions

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blooper
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Computing two dimensional functions

Post by blooper » Thu May 14, 2009 10:36 pm

How one can write a function "map2D" that will be a 2-dimensional equivalent of the standard "map" function?

In other words, I like it to work like in the following example:

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(map2D + '((1 . 2) (3 . 4) (5 . 6)) )
should return a result:

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(3 7 11)
because:
1 + 2 = 3, or equivalently:

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(+ 1 2) == 3
3 + 4 = 7, or equivalently:

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(+ 3 4) == 7
5 + 6 = 11, or equivalently:

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(+ 5 6) == 11
Here "+" is acting like a function of two variables that is acting of every pair from the given list.

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Re: Computing two dimensional functions

Post by Jasper » Fri May 15, 2009 11:27 am

Edit: being an idiot.. it is talking about Scheme not CL :/ (salvaged this)

If you have a function that collects output of a function for each element of a list, mapcar, then:(untested)

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(defun fun-with-list-to-args (fun)
  (lambda (list) (apply fun list)))
;;Now should work:
(mapcar (fun-with-list-to-args +) '((1 2) (3 4 5) (-1 1 -1 1)))
, then the elements of the list should themselves be regular lists. (the '.' doesn't seem like a good idea to me.)

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Re: Computing two dimensional functions

Post by blooper » Sun May 17, 2009 3:55 am

Thanks for your solution. :) But is there any way to change it, so it will work with lists of pairs (with dot inside)? :?: (I cannot change the way in which input is passed to the function.)

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Re: Computing two dimensional functions

Post by gugamilare » Sun May 17, 2009 6:39 am

blooper wrote:Thanks for your solution. :) But is there any way to change it, so it will work with lists of pairs (with dot inside)? :?: (I cannot change the way in which input is passed to the function.)
A list with 2 elements with a "dot inside" is just a cons cell. You access the first element using the function car and the second element using cdr. So you need to write a function like this:

(lambda (cons-cell)
(+ (car cons-cell) (cdr cons-cell)))

and apply this function to every element of the list.

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Re: Computing two dimensional functions

Post by blooper » Wed May 20, 2009 6:34 am

Thanks for the hint, but I still can't write the appropriate function. :-( Scheme seems to be too abstract for me...

But thank you anyway. :-)

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Re: Computing two dimensional functions

Post by gugamilare » Wed May 20, 2009 8:26 am

blooper wrote:Thanks for the hint, but I still can't write the appropriate function. :-( Scheme seems to be too abstract for me...
It is just a matter of using map with the function I wrote. Try this:

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(map
  (lambda (cons)
    (+ (car cons) (cdr cons)))
  '((1 . 2) (3 . 4) (5 . 6)))
You will see that this returns exactly what should be returned by map2d in your example. It should be very easy to generalize this to accept all kinds of functions.

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