This would work for a particular function. I was looking for a general
solution that would allow memo-ing any function without further
consideration. In J, for example, you just and "M." to the function
definition, and you're done. If I were to do something like this in LC I'd
want to implement something similarly robust and simple to use.
As to why I want to: no particular reason, other than memo seems vaguely
possible in LC, and a useful thing to have. I like pushing the language
forward.
gc
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Dick Kriesel <dick.krie...@mail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Geoff. Here's a way to memoize without parsing the functions'
> arguments, so commas won't be a pain.
>
> local sMemo
> function memoize pFunctionName, pParam1, pParam2
> local tDigest
> put md5( the params ) into tDigest
> if tDigest is among the keys of sMemo then
> get sMemo[ tDigest ]
> else
> get value( pFunctionName & "(" & item 2 to -1 of the params )
> put it into sMemo[ tDigest ]
> end if
> return it
> end memoize
>
> Calling MD5 makes the array's keys shorter. IIRC, that's good, although
> when I tried to find evidence about it in the current docs, I couldn't find
> it.
>
> Does this help?
>
> -- Dick
>
>
> On Jun 11, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Geoff Canyon Rev wrote:
>
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization
> >
> > I'm wondering if anyone has experimented with creating an automatic
> > memoization function within LC? Given that we can access argument lists,
> and
> > have "do," it seems possible, but I'm betting commas in the arguments
> would
> > be a pain. Something like this:
> >
> > function m functionName
> > local callHistory,callHistoryValue
> >
> > -- parse out addition arguments to m
> > -- concatenate functionName & arguments into functionCallString
> >
> > if callHistory[functionCallString] is not empty then
> > return callHistoryValue[functionCallString]
> > end if
> >
> > -- get the function result
> >
> > put it into callHistoryValue[functionCallString]
> > put 1 into callHistory[functionCallString]
> >
> > return it
> >
> > end m
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