apfelmus wrote:
Up-pointers won't work in Haskell, you'll need a different approach. Can
you elaborate on what your tree looks like and what it stores?
"pointers" don't exist in Haskell, though they do exist in the Foreign.*
interface package.
But Up-values work just fine:
import Data.Tree
-- Build a tree of divisors:
tree :: Tree String
tree = unfoldTree f 12 -- example
where f 1 = (show 1,[])
f n = (show n,[ x | x <- [1..n `div` 2], n `mod` x == 0])
-- One possible design, using Maybe:
data UpTree a = UpTree { value :: a
, parent :: Maybe (UpTree a)
, children :: [UpTree a]
}
-- Convert a Tree to an UpTree
treeToUpTree t = helper Nothing t where
helper p t =
let p' = UpTree { value = rootLabel t
, parent = p
, children = map (helper (Just p')) (subForest t)
}
in p'
upTree :: UpTree String
upTree = treeToUpTree tree -- example
-- Pretty print this example UpTree with careful access to parent:
instance Show a => Show (UpTree a) where
show u@(UpTree {parent=Nothing}) =
"ROOT_UpTree "++show (value u)++"\n"
++(indent 3 $ show (children u))
show u@(UpTree {parent=Just p,children=[]}) =
"UpTree "++show (value u)++"\n"
++" parent value is "++show (value p)++"\n"
show u@(UpTree {parent=Just p}) =
"UpTree "++show (value u)++"\n"
++" parent value is "++show (value p)++"\n"
++(indent 3 $ show (children u))
indent n x = let xs = lines x
in if null xs then ""
else unlines $ map (replicate n ' ' ++) xs
main = print upTree
Gives:
ROOT_UpTree "12"
[LEAF UpTree "1"
parent value is "12"
,BRANCH UpTree "2"
parent value is "12"
[LEAF UpTree "1"
parent value is "2"
]
,BRANCH UpTree "3"
parent value is "12"
[LEAF UpTree "1"
parent value is "3"
]
,BRANCH UpTree "4"
parent value is "12"
[LEAF UpTree "1"
parent value is "4"
,BRANCH UpTree "2"
parent value is "4"
[LEAF UpTree "1"
parent value is "2"
]
]
,BRANCH UpTree "6"
parent value is "12"
[LEAF UpTree "1"
parent value is "6"
,BRANCH UpTree "2"
parent value is "6"
[LEAF UpTree "1"
parent value is "2"
]
,BRANCH UpTree "3"
parent value is "6"
[LEAF UpTree "1"
parent value is "3"
]
]
]
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