Here are two different ways of rewriting that mapc with iter:
`(iter top (repeat 1) (iter (for x in '(1 2 3)) (in top (collect x))))`
`(iter (repeat 1) (appending '(1 2 3)))`
`(iter (repeat 1) (appending (iter (for x in '(1 2 3)) (collect x))))`
If I am using iter, I try hard to *only* use iter, as one of the reasons
for this library (for me) is to have a single syntax for iteration.
That said, I wrote the `collectors` library to handle arbitrary
collection tasks that were not easily expressed as a straight iteration.
The collectors library binds local functions, so you can `(mapc
#'collect ...)` etc.
https://github.com/AccelerationNet/collectors
Cheers,
Russ Tyndall
On 03/13/2018 11:52 AM, Luís Oliveira wrote:
Just a curiosity: you could compute the average incrementally:
<https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/106700/incremental-averageing>,
but doing it the usual way is probably more efficient and with smaller
numeric error when using floats.
Slightly off-topic question: oftentimes I have to use map-like
iterators. Is there a good way to use such iterators in conjunction
with iter? An obvious way would be something like:
(iter (repeat 1) (mapc (lambda (x) (collect x)) '(1 2 3)))
The (iter (repeat 1) ...) bit could be hidden under a macro, I
suppose. But it'd be nicer if collect were a function, so I could do
(mapc #'collect '(1 2 3)). Perhaps said macro could rewrite #'clause
to (lambda (x) (expansion-of-clause x)) or something similar. Looks
like a fun idea to explore so I'm wondering if someone's played with
something like this before.
(It's even more fun to turn map-like iterators into generators using
continuations, but that's fully off-topic. :-))
Cheers,
Luís
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 3:08 PM Russ Tyndall <r...@acceleration.net
<mailto:r...@acceleration.net>> wrote:
Here is an existing "sampling" clause to pull a random sample from
a larger data set. The long and short is just use a finally
clause, as you would when writing a normal iterate loop.
(iterate:defmacro-clause (sampling expr &optional into var size size)
"resevoir sample the input"
(let ((sample (or var iterate::*result-var*)))
(alexandria:with-unique-names (i sample-size sigil buffer row)
`(progn
(with ,sample)
(with ,sample-size = (or ,size 100))
(with ,buffer = (make-array ,sample-size :initial-element
',sigil))
(with ,i = 0)
(if (< ,i ,sample-size)
(setf (aref ,buffer ,i) ,expr)
(let ((r (random ,i)))
(when (< r ,sample-size)
(setf (aref ,buffer r) ,expr))))
(incf ,i)
(finally
;; convert our sample to a list, but only if we actually
took the sample
(when (plusp ,i)
(setf ,sample
(iter (for ,row in-vector ,buffer)
(until (eq ,row ',sigil))
(collect ,row)))))))))
Cheers,
Russ Tyndall
Acceleration.net
On 03/13/2018 10:49 AM, Robert Goldman wrote:
I was going to define an |AVERAGING| collector clause for
iterate, but I'm not sure how to do it. The obvious thing, it
seemed to me, would be to sum the values as I go along, and count
them, and then divide the sum by the count when leaving the loop.
But the examples for |DEFMACRO-CLAUSE| in the manual do all of
their work while iterating, and there doesn't seem to be an
"at-end" hook. Is the kind of thing I would like feasible, and if
so, how is it to be done?
thanks!
r
