Ok. My bad. Should not be reading and responding to such posts from the
phone. Somehow, I overlooked that part of the mail. I think as Alex stated,
a simple way of holding on to seen objects in the set and reducing the list
should be good.


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Colin Yates <colin.ya...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The missing context is that distinct removes duplicates, I want duplicates
> to be made unique by changing them in some way: (uniquify ["a" "b" "c"
> "a"]) => ["a" "b" "c" "a_1"]) *not* (uniquify ["a" "b" "c" "a"]) => ["a"
> "b" "c"])
>
> Not sure what else to put that isn't in the original post to be honest...
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 07:10:22 -0800
> Subject: Re: How can I improve this?
> From: grd...@gmail.com
> To: clojure@googlegroups.com
>
>
> Hi Colin,
>
> Clojure has a distinct function that does this. I may be missing some
> context on what you what out of your new method that 'distinct' does not
> provide. The distinct functions source code is a good reference.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Colin Yates <colin.ya...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> I have a sequence of file names and I want to make them unique.  (uniquify
> ["a" "b" "c" "a"]) => ["a" "b" "c" "a_1"])
>
> This is what I have come up with, but surely there is a better way?
>
> What would you all do?  Feedback welcome (including the word 'muppet' as I
> am sure I have missed something simple) :)
>
> (defn uniquify
>   "Return a sequence, in the same order as s containing every element
>   of s. If s (which is presumed to be a string) occurs more than once
>   then every subsequent occurrence will be made unique.
>
>   Items will be updated to include an incrementing numeric count using
>   the specified formatter function. The formatter function will be
>   given the name and the number and should return a combination of the
>   two.
>
>   The set of unique s's in the returned sequence will be the count of
>   s's in s."
>   ([s] (uniquify s (fn [item duplicates] (str item "_" duplicates))))
>   ([s formatter]
>      (let [occurrences (atom {})
>            register-occurrence (fn [item]
>                                  (if (get @occurrences item)
>                                    (swap! (get @occurrences item) inc)
>                                    (swap! occurrences assoc item (atom 1)))
>                                  @(get @occurrences item))
>            process (fn [item]
>                      (let [duplicates (dec (register-occurrence item))]
>                        (if (> duplicates 0)
>                          (formatter item duplicates)
>                          item)))
>            unique-s (map process s)]
>        unique-s)))
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