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. >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.