Actually to be fair, here's a Clojure version that uses as little whitespace
as the Scala and Java ones do.
(map #(str"Happy Birthday "%)(assoc (vec (replicate 4"To You"))2"Dear XXX"))
; -> 76 chars
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:14 AM, David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Your basic approach seems sound:
> (map #(str "Happy Birthday " %) (assoc (vec (replicate 4 "To You")) 2 "Dear
> XXX") -> 81 chars including white space
>
> for(int i=0;i<4;i++){System.out.println("Happy Birthday "+(i==2?"Dear
> XXX":"To You"));}) -> 88 chars
>
> (1 to 4).map{i=>"Happy Birthday %s".format(if(i==3)"Dear XXX"else"To
> You")}.foreach{println(_)} -> 95 chars
>
> Anyone have a shorter version? :)
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Wilson MacGyver <wmacgy...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> This blog post got me thinking.
>> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=268561
>>
>> Basically it contains both a Java one liner and Scala one liner.
>>
>> Java:
>> for(int i=0; i<4; i++) { System.out.println("Happy Birthday " + (i==2
>> ? "Dear XXX" : "To You")); }
>>
>> Scala:
>> (1 to 4).map { i => "Happy Birthday %s".format(if (i == 3) "Dear XXX"
>> else "To You") }.foreach { println(_) }
>>
>> the goal is to generate
>>
>> Happy Birthday To You
>> Happy Birthday To You
>> Happy Birthday Dear XXX
>> Happy Birthday To You
>>
>>
>> I started thinking about how to do this in clojure. My first reaction was
>> to
>> think of the sentences as two sequences. Uses replicate to generate
>> them, and map str to join them from two collections.
>>
>> ie, (map str (replicate 4 "Happy Birthday ")...
>>
>> Is there a more "clojure" way to do it?
>> because using replicate to generate the 2nd sequence seem like cheating.
>> ie, replicate 2 "To You", 1 "Dear XXX", and then "To You" again.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum.
>>
>> >>
>>
>
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