X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=assignment1.mdwn;h=ea8f2511992e97ff0caed2f8f002426dd2bc053b;hp=8ecb3f8e5f8ea333d41c1804ca8b4e01c6a5d5a4;hb=HEAD;hpb=4febe9baf554aef6538d3025e5099a870ca82230 diff --git a/assignment1.mdwn b/assignment1.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 8ecb3f8e..00000000 --- a/assignment1.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,118 +0,0 @@ -1. Define a function `zero?` that expects a single number as an argument, and returns `'true` if that number is `0`, else returns `'false`. Your solution should have a form something like this: - - let - zero? match lambda x. FILL_IN_THIS_PART - in zero? - - You can use the `if...then...else` construction if you like, but it will make it easier to generalize to later problems if you use the `case EXPRESSION of PATTERN1 then RESULT1; PATTERN2 then RESULT2; ... end` construction instead. - -2. Define a function `empty?` that expects a sequence of values as an argument (doesn't matter what type of values), and returns `'true` if that sequence is the empty sequence `[]`, else returns `'false`. Here your solution should have a form something like this: - - let - empty? match lambda xs. case xs of - FILL_IN_THIS_PART - end - in empty? - -3. Define a function `tail` that expects a sequence of values as an argument (doesn't matter what type of values), and returns that sequence with the first element (if any) stripped away. (Applying `tail` to the empty sequence `[]` can just give us back the empty sequence.) - -4. Define a function `drop` that expects two arguments, in the form (*number*, *sequence*), and works like this: - - drop (0, [10, 20, 30]) # evaluates to [10, 20, 30] - drop (1, [10, 20, 30]) # evaluates to [20, 30] - drop (2, [10, 20, 30]) # evaluates to [30] - drop (3, [10, 20, 30]) # evaluates to [] - drop (4, [10, 20, 30]) # evaluates to [] - - Your solution should have a form something like this: - - letrec - drop match lambda (n, xs). FILL_IN_THIS_PART - in drop - - What is the relation between `tail` and `drop`? - -5. Define a function `take` that expects two arguments, in the same form as `drop`, but works like this instead: - - take (0, [10, 20, 30]) # evaluates to [] - take (1, [10, 20, 30]) # evaluates to [10] - take (2, [10, 20, 30]) # evaluates to [10, 20] - take (3, [10, 20, 30]) # evaluates to [10, 20, 30] - take (4, [10, 20, 30]) # evaluates to [10, 20, 30] - -6. Define a function `split` that expects two arguments, in the same form as `drop` and `take`, but this time evaluates to a pair of results. It works like this: - - split (0, [10, 20, 30]) # evaluates to ([], [10, 20, 30]) - split (1, [10, 20, 30]) # evaluates to ([10], [20, 30]) - split (2, [10, 20, 30]) # evaluates to ([10, 20], [30]) - split (3, [10, 20, 30]) # evaluates to ([10, 20, 30], []) - split (4, [10, 20, 30]) # evaluates to ([10, 20, 30], []) - - Here's a way to answer this problem making use of your answers to previous questions: - - letrec - drop match ... ; # as in problem 4 - take match ... ; # as in problem 5 - split match lambda (n, xs). let - ys = take (n, xs); - zs = drop (n, xs) - in (ys, zs) - in split - - However, we want you to instead write this function from scratch. - -7. Write a function `filter` that expects two arguments. The second argument will be a sequence `xs` with elements of some type *t*, for example numbers. The first argument will be a function `p` that itself expects arguments of type *t* and returns `'true` or `'false`. What `filter` should return is a sequence that contains exactly those members of `xs` for which `p` returned `'true`. For example, helping ourself to a function `odd?` that works as you'd expect: - - filter (odd?, [11, 12, 13, 14]) # evaluates to [11, 13] - filter (odd?, [11]) # evaluates to [11] - filter (odd?, [12, 14]) # evaluates to [] - -8. Write a function `partition` that expects two arguments, in the same form as `filter`, but this time evaluates to a pair of results. It works like this: - - partition (odd?, [11, 12, 13, 14]) # evaluates to ([11, 13], [12, 14]) - partition (odd?, [11]) # evaluates to ([11], []) - partition (odd?, [12, 14]) # evaluates to ([], [12, 14]) - -9. Write a function `double` that expects one argument which is a sequence of numbers, and returns a sequence of the same length with the corresponding elements each being twice the value of the original element. For example: - - double [10, 20, 30] # evaluates to [20, 40, 60] - double [] # evaluates to [] - -10. Write a function `map` that generalizes `double`. This function expects a pair of arguments, the second being a sequence `xs` with elements of some type *t*, for example numbers. The first argument will be a function `f` that itself expects arguments of type *t* and returns some type *t'* of result. What `map` should return is a sequence of the results, in the same order as the corresponding original elements. The result should be that we could say: - - letrec - map match lambda (f, xs). FILL_IN_THIS_PART; - double match lambda xs. map ((lambda x. 2*x), xs) - in ... - -11. Write a function `map2` that generalizes `map`. This function expects a triple of arguments: the first being a function `f` as for `map`, and the second and third being two sequences. In this case `f` is a function that expects *two* arguments, one from the first of the sequences and the other from the corresponding position in the other sequence. The result should behave like this: - - map2 ((lambda (x,y). 10*x + y), [1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]) # evaluates to [14, 25, 36] - - -###Extra credit problems### - -* In class I mentioned a function `&&` which occupied the position *between* its arguments, rather than coming before them (this is called an "infix" function). The way that it works is that `[1, 2, 3] && [4, 5]` evaluates to `[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]`. Define this function, making use of `letrec` and the simpler infix operation `&`. - -* Write a function `unmap2` that is something like the inverse of `map2`. This function expects two arguments, the second being a sequence of elements of some type *t*. The first is a function `g` that expects a single argument of type *t* and returns a *pair* of results, rather than just one result. We want to collate these results, the first into one list, and the second into a different list. Then `unmap2` should return those two lists. Thus if: - - g x1 # evaluates to [y1, z1] - g x2 # evaluates to [y2, z2] - g x3 # evaluates to [y3, z3] - - Then `unmap2 (g, [x1, x2, x3])` should evaluate to `([y1, y2, y3], [z1, z2, z3])`. - -* Write a function `takewhile` that expects a `p` argument like `filter`, and also a sequence. The result should behave like this: - - takewhile ((lambda x. x < 10), [1, 2, 20, 4, 40]) # evaluates to [1, 2] - - Note that we stop "taking" once we reach `20`, even though there are still later elements in the list that are less than `10`. - -* Write a function `dropwhile` that expects a `p` argument like `filter`, and also a sequence. The result should behave like this: - - dropwhile ((lambda x. x < 10), [1, 2, 20, 4, 40]) # evaluates to [20, 4, 40] - - Note that we stop "dropping" once we reach `20`, even though there are still later elements in the list that are less than `10`. - -* Write a function `reverse` that returns the reverse of a sequence. Thus, `reverse [1, 2, 3, 4]` should evaluate to `[4, 3, 2, 1]`. -