I'm somewhat late to the party, but what the hey - it's a quiet Sunday
afternoon, and for my own amusement I came up with:
(defn spaces [n] (apply str (take n (repeat "."))))
(defn n->a [n] (char (+ n (int \A))))
(defn a->n [a] (- (int a) (int \A)))
(defn gap [n] (spaces (dec (* 2 n))))
(defn diamond [c]
(let [l (a->n c)]
(when (<= (a->n \A) l (a->n \Z))
(doseq [i (range l)] (println (str (spaces (- l i)) (n->a i) (gap i)
(when-not (zero? i) (n->a i)))))
(println (str c (spaces (dec (* 2 l))) (when-not (= \A c))))
(doseq [i (reverse (range l))] (println (str (spaces (- l i)) (n->a
i) (gap i) (when-not (zero? i) (n->a i))))))))
Normally I'd add a few comments to this code , especially the diamond
function - which is at the limit of the density I feel comfortable with.
That said - it seems to work.
What I find interesting about this is the length of the code compared with
the various Java solutions I looked at; looks like Paul Graham was right:
http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html
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