digitalmars.D.learn - Using "reduce" with user types
- Kadir Erdem Demir (30/30) Feb 07 2015 I can use filter algorithm with my types easily.
- Rikki Cattermole (5/35) Feb 07 2015 auto sum = aArr.map!`a.count`.reduce!((a,b) => a + b);
- Kadir Erdem Demir (12/13) Feb 07 2015 Rikki Thanks a lot. It works.
- Meta (29/31) Feb 07 2015 You can think of map as taking a range of something (in this
- FG (4/9) Feb 07 2015 // auto sum = aArr.reduce!((a,b) => a.count + b.count); // Wrong
I can use filter algorithm with my types easily. struct A { string value; int count; } void main( string[] args ) { A[] aArr; aArr ~= A("HTTP", 3); aArr ~= A("HTTPS", 2); aArr ~= A("UNKNOWN_TCP", 4); aArr.filter!( a => a.count == 2); But I couldn't compile when I want to use reduce algorithm. I simply want to get the sum of "count" variables inside of A[]. auto sum = aArr.reduce!((a,b) => a.count + b.count); The line above gives C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\algorithm.d(770): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (__lambda3(result, front(_param_1))) of type int to A C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\algorithm.d(791): Error: template instance app.main.reduce!((a, b) => a.count + b.count).reduce!(A, A[]) error instantiating source\app.d(363): instantiated from here: reduce!(A[]) How can I achieve summing count variables inside A[]? Best Regards Kadir Erdem Demir Ps: The problem caused by my lack of D basics I admit, the reason I can't look up references more before ask question I am in a bit tight schedule. Sorry for my dummy questions.
Feb 07 2015
On 8/02/2015 1:47 a.m., Kadir Erdem Demir wrote:I can use filter algorithm with my types easily. struct A { string value; int count; } void main( string[] args ) { A[] aArr; aArr ~= A("HTTP", 3); aArr ~= A("HTTPS", 2); aArr ~= A("UNKNOWN_TCP", 4); aArr.filter!( a => a.count == 2); But I couldn't compile when I want to use reduce algorithm. I simply want to get the sum of "count" variables inside of A[]. auto sum = aArr.reduce!((a,b) => a.count + b.count); The line above gives C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\algorithm.d(770): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (__lambda3(result, front(_param_1))) of type int to A C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\algorithm.d(791): Error: template instance app.main.reduce!((a, b) => a.count + b.count).reduce!(A, A[]) error instantiating source\app.d(363): instantiated from here: reduce!(A[]) How can I achieve summing count variables inside A[]? Best Regards Kadir Erdem Demir Ps: The problem caused by my lack of D basics I admit, the reason I can't look up references more before ask question I am in a bit tight schedule. Sorry for my dummy questions.auto sum = aArr.map!`a.count`.reduce!((a,b) => a + b); Not much difference. I tried sum instead of reduce, but it didn't work. Wouldn't matter much as it is the same thing pretty much anyway.
Feb 07 2015
auto sum = aArr.map!`a.count`.reduce!((a,b) => a + b);Rikki Thanks a lot. It works. Function map!"a.count"(aArr) surprises me a little. Because when I read std.algorithm reference: `Implements the homonym function (also known as transform)`. Which reminds me C++ transform and it will never used for returning a element of the struct. I expect transform to modify the elements of the range but in D it seem to me it also used traversing the elements. How can I imagine what "map" does in my mind, because it doesn't matches with the transform concept in my mind? Regards Kadir Erdem
Feb 07 2015
On Saturday, 7 February 2015 at 13:38:00 UTC, Kadir Erdem Demir wrote:How can I imagine what "map" does in my mind, because it doesn't matches with the transform concept in my mind?You can think of map as taking a range of something (in this case, an array of A), and calling a user-supplied function on each element in that range. The user-supplied function is a function that describes how to "map" each value in the range to a result. In your case, the function defines how to map from an A to its `count` member variable (it is a function of type A->int). All "aArr.map!`a.count`" means is that for each A in aArr, return its `count` member. map!`a.count` is some syntax sugar D has to make function calls shorter; It expands to the following: aArr.map!((A a) { return a.count; }) The main difference between `map` in D and `transform` in C++ is, I believe, twofold. First off, `transform` is eager, meaning it does as much work as possible as son as possible. On the other hand, `map` does as little work as possible as late as possible. For the following code: iota(10).map!(n => writeln(n)).take(5).array Only "0 1 2 3 4" will be printed, as map is lazy and will not do work it doesn't have to. Second of all, map returns a range that is the result of applying the supplied function to each element of aArr. C++'s tranform copies the result to another user-supplied range. If you wanted the equivalent of transform in C++, you could do this: auto result = new int[](10); iota(10).map!(n => n + 1).copy(result) And result will be filled with the results of map.
Feb 07 2015
On 2015-02-07 at 13:47, Kadir Erdem Demir wrote:auto sum = aArr.reduce!((a,b) => a.count + b.count); The line above gives C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\algorithm.d(770): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (__lambda3(result, front(_param_1))) of type int to A C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\algorithm.d(791): Error: template instance app.main.reduce!((a, b) => a.count + b.count).reduce!(A, A[]) error instantiating source\app.d(363): instantiated from here: reduce!(A[])// auto sum = aArr.reduce!((a,b) => a.count + b.count); // Wrong auto sum = reduce!((a, b) => a + b.count)(0, aArr); // Good
Feb 07 2015