Yes, exactly, you read my mind.
(I'd also like to do this a sorted-map / PersistentTreeMap (nudge, nudge)
-- all that is missing would be public 'left' and 'right' accessors. I
don't necessarily need rank functionality.)
On Friday, February 20, 2015 at 10:39:26 AM UTC-5, Michał Marczyk wrote:
>
> Do you mean you'd like to compress
>
> {0 :a 1 :a 2 :a 3 :a 4 :b 5 :b 6 :c 7 :c 8 :c 9 :c}
>
> to something like
>
> {[0 1 2] :a [4 5] :b [6 7 8 9] :c}
>
> while maintaining the ability to ask for the value at 0, 1, …, 9?
>
> If so, you could represent the above as
>
> {0 :a 2 :a 4 :b 5 :b 6 :c 9 :c}
>
> (notice no explicit entries for 1, 7, 8) and query for the value at 7,
> say, using
>
> (val (avl/nearest the-map <= 7))
> ;= :c
>
> (avl/nearest can be implemented for built-in sorted maps using subseq and
> first, in fact the test suite for data.avl has an implementation like that
> that it compares avl/nearest against).
>
> If you need more operations – say, data.avl-style slice-{at,key} and
> subrange – those could be supported with some care (mostly around the
> possibility that a slice, say, removes an endpoint of an interval – you may
> need to add the slice boundary as a replacement in that case).
>
> Cheers,
> Michał
>
>
> On 20 February 2015 at 16:15, David James <david...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your comments. I see now that I should clarify: all I really
>> need is public access to the left and right Java methods in PTM. (So,
>> perhaps CLJ-1008 is asking for more than I really need.)
>>
>> It seems to me that since Clojure's RB-Tree implementation (i.e.
>> sorted-map = PTM), it might as well expose a Java API for root node (which
>> it does) and branches (which is does not, currently). Is there any downside
>> to exposing the 'right' and 'left' Java methods as public?
>>
>> In the near term, I'll be using data.avl. I'm glad it exists! My use case
>> involves a non-overlapping interval map to store time series data that
>> doesn't change very often.
>>
>
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