It might be Huffman coding but I don't know Hoffman coding in depth, so I 
can't be precise. :)

But any way, it is a snippet written in an imperative style that I'm trying 
to transfer into a functional one.

The amount of mutation and the if statements are blocking me from doing it 
in Clojure.


On Sunday, August 18, 2013 4:27:43 PM UTC+2, Chris Ford wrote:
>
> Can you explain what the code is supposed to do in English? Java is a 
> little hard to read. :-)
>
> Are you doing Huffman coding or similar?
>
>
> On 18 August 2013 16:51, Hussein B. <hubag...@gmail.com <javascript:>>wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Would you please help me transforming this imperative code into 
>> functional one?
>>
>> The code is a typical snippet in imperative style. A lot of mutations 
>> that I don't even know how to start morphing it to Clojure.
>>
>> class Container {
>>   Map<String, Container> children;
>>   String letter;
>>   List<String> value;
>> }
>>
>> void insert(Container container, String letters, String value) {
>>   
>>   for (int i = 0; i < letters.length; i++) {
>>
>>     String letter = new String(letters.chatAt[i]);
>>
>>     if (container.children.get(letter) != null) {
>>       container = container.children.get(letter);
>>     } else {
>>       Map<Container> childContainer = new HashMap<>();
>>       container.children.put(letter, childContainer);
>>       container = container.children.get(letter);
>>     }
>>
>>    if (i == letters.length() - 1) {
>>      container.values.add(value);
>>      break;
>>    }
>>
>> } 
>>
>>
>> Thanks for help and time.
>>
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