Spoke too soon:
(map #(str"Happy Birthday "%)(assoc(vec(replicate 4"To You"))2"Dear XXX"))
-> 74
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:17 AM, David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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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