factor/basis/lists/lazy/lazy-docs.factor

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! Copyright (C) 2006 Chris Double.
! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
USING: help.markup help.syntax sequences strings lists ;
IN: lists.lazy
ABOUT: "lists.lazy"
ARTICLE: "lists.lazy" "Lazy lists"
"The " { $vocab-link "lists.lazy" } " vocabulary implements lazy lists and standard operations to manipulate them."
{ $subsections
{ "lists.lazy" "construction" }
{ "lists.lazy" "manipulation" }
{ "lists.lazy" "combinators" }
{ "lists.lazy" "io" }
} ;
ARTICLE: { "lists.lazy" "combinators" } "Combinators for manipulating lazy lists"
"The following combinators create lazy lists from other lazy lists:"
{ $subsections
lazy-map
lfilter
luntil
lwhile
lfrom-by
lcomp
lcomp*
} ;
ARTICLE: { "lists.lazy" "io" } "Lazy list I/O"
"Input from a stream can be read through a lazy list, using the following words:"
{ $subsections
lcontents
llines
} ;
ARTICLE: { "lists.lazy" "construction" } "Constructing lazy lists"
"Words for constructing lazy lists:"
{ $subsections
lazy-cons
1lazy-list
2lazy-list
3lazy-list
sequence-tail>list
>list
lfrom
} ;
ARTICLE: { "lists.lazy" "manipulation" } "Manipulating lazy lists"
"To make new lazy lists from old ones:"
{ $subsections
<memoized-cons>
lappend
lconcat
lcartesian-product
lcartesian-product*
lmerge
ltake
} ;
HELP: lazy-cons
{ $values { "car" { $quotation "( -- elt )" } } { "cdr" { $quotation "( -- cons )" } } { "promise" "the resulting cons object" } }
{ $description "Constructs a cons object for a lazy list from two quotations. The " { $snippet "car" } " quotation should return the head of the list, and the " { $snippet "cons" } " quotation the tail when called. When " { $link cons } " or " { $link cdr } " are called on the lazy-cons object then the appropriate quotation is called." }
{ $see-also cons car cdr nil nil? } ;
{ 1lazy-list 2lazy-list 3lazy-list } related-words
HELP: 1lazy-list
{ $values { "a" { $quotation "( -- X )" } } { "lazy-cons" "a lazy-cons object" } }
{ $description "Create a lazy list with 1 element. The element is the result of calling the quotation. The quotation is only called when the list element is requested." } ;
HELP: 2lazy-list
{ $values { "a" { $quotation "( -- X )" } } { "b" { $quotation "( -- X )" } } { "lazy-cons" "a lazy-cons object" } }
{ $description "Create a lazy list with 2 elements. The elements are the result of calling the quotations. The quotations are only called when the list elements are requested." } ;
HELP: 3lazy-list
{ $values { "a" { $quotation "( -- X )" } } { "b" { $quotation "( -- X )" } } { "c" { $quotation "( -- X )" } } { "lazy-cons" "a lazy-cons object" } }
{ $description "Create a lazy list with 3 elements. The elements are the result of calling the quotations. The quotations are only called when the list elements are requested." } ;
HELP: <memoized-cons>
{ $values { "cons" "a cons object" } { "memoized-cons" "the resulting memoized-cons object" } }
{ $description "Constructs a cons object that wraps an existing cons object. Requests for the car, cdr and nil? will be remembered after the first call, and the previous result returned on subsequent calls." }
{ $see-also cons car cdr nil nil? } ;
{ lazy-map ltake lfilter lappend lfrom lfrom-by lconcat lcartesian-product lcartesian-product* lcomp lcomp* lmerge lwhile luntil } related-words
HELP: lazy-map
{ $values { "list" "a cons object" } { "quot" { $quotation "( obj -- X )" } } { "result" "resulting cons object" } }
{ $description "Perform a similar functionality to that of the " { $link map } " word, but in a lazy manner. No evaluation of the list elements occurs initially but a " { $link <lazy-map> } " object is returned which conforms to the list protocol. Calling " { $link car } ", " { $link cdr } " or " { $link nil? } " on this will evaluate elements as required." } ;
HELP: ltake
{ $values { "n" "a non negative integer" } { "list" "a cons object" } { "result" "resulting cons object" } }
{ $description "Outputs a lazy list containing the first n items in the list. This is done a lazy manner. No evaluation of the list elements occurs initially but a " { $link <lazy-take> } " object is returned which conforms to the list protocol. Calling " { $link car } ", " { $link cdr } " or " { $link nil? } " on this will evaluate elements as required." } ;
HELP: lfilter
{ $values { "list" "a cons object" } { "quot" { $quotation "( -- X )" } } { "result" "resulting cons object" } }
{ $description "Perform a similar functionality to that of the " { $link filter } " word, but in a lazy manner. No evaluation of the list elements occurs initially but a " { $link <lazy-filter> } " object is returned which conforms to the list protocol. Calling " { $link car } ", " { $link cdr } " or " { $link nil? } " on this will evaluate elements as required." } ;
HELP: lwhile
{ $values { "list" "a cons object" } { "quot" { $quotation "( X -- ? )" } } { "result" "resulting cons object" } }
{ $description "Outputs a lazy list containing the first items in the list as long as " { $snippet "quot" } " evaluates to t. No evaluation of the list elements occurs initially but a " { $link <lazy-while> } " object is returned with conforms to the list protocol. Calling " { $link car } ", " { $link cdr } " or " { $link nil? } " on this will evaluate elements as required." } ;
HELP: luntil
{ $values { "list" "a cons object" } { "quot" { $quotation "( X -- ? )" } } { "result" "resulting cons object" } }
{ $description "Outputs a lazy list containing the first items in the list until after " { $snippet "quot" } " evaluates to t. No evaluation of the list elements occurs initially but a " { $link <lazy-while> } " object is returned with conforms to the list protocol. Calling " { $link car } ", " { $link cdr } " or " { $link nil? } " on this will evaluate elements as required." } ;
HELP: lappend
{ $values { "list1" "a cons object" } { "list2" "a cons object" } { "result" "a lazy list of list2 appended to list1" } }
{ $description "Perform a similar functionality to that of the " { $link append } " word, but in a lazy manner. No evaluation of the list elements occurs initially but a " { $link <lazy-append> } " object is returned which conforms to the list protocol. Calling " { $link car } ", " { $link cdr } " or " { $link nil? } " on this will evaluate elements as required. Successive calls to " { $link cdr } " will iterate through list1, followed by list2." } ;
HELP: lfrom-by
{ $values { "n" "an integer" } { "quot" { $quotation "( n -- o )" } } { "lazy-from-by" "a lazy list of integers" } }
{ $description "Return an infinite lazy list of values starting from n, with each successive value being the result of applying quot to the previous value." } ;
HELP: lfrom
{ $values { "n" "an integer" } { "list" "a lazy list of integers" } }
{ $description "Return an infinite lazy list of incrementing integers starting from n." } ;
HELP: sequence-tail>list
{ $values { "index" "an integer 0 or greater" } { "seq" "a sequence" } { "list" "a list" } }
{ $description "Convert the sequence into a list, starting from " { $snippet "index" } "." }
{ $see-also >list } ;
HELP: >list
{ $values { "object" "an object" } { "list" "a list" } }
{ $description "Convert the object into a list. Existing lists are passed through intact, sequences are converted using " { $link sequence-tail>list } " and other objects cause an error to be thrown." }
{ $see-also sequence-tail>list } ;
{ leach foldl lazy-map ltake lfilter lappend lfrom lfrom-by lconcat lcartesian-product lcartesian-product* lcomp lcomp* lmerge lwhile luntil } related-words
HELP: lconcat
{ $values { "list" "a list of lists" } { "result" "a list" } }
{ $description "Concatenates a list of lists together into one list." } ;
HELP: lcartesian-product
{ $values { "list1" "a list" } { "list2" "a list" } { "result" "list of cartesian products" } }
{ $description "Given two lists, return a list containing the cartesian product of those lists." } ;
HELP: lcartesian-product*
{ $values { "lists" "a list of lists" } { "result" "list of cartesian products" } }
{ $description "Given a list of lists, return a list containing the cartesian product of those lists." } ;
HELP: lcomp
{ $values { "list" "a list of lists" } { "quot" { $quotation "( seq -- X )" } } { "result" "the resulting list" } }
{ $description "Get the cartesian product of the lists in " { $snippet "list" } " and call " { $snippet "quot" } " call with each element from the cartesian product on the stack, the result of which is returned in the final " { $snippet "list" } "." } ;
HELP: lcomp*
{ $values { "list" "a list of lists" } { "guards" "a sequence of quotations with stack effect ( seq -- bool )" } { "quot" { $quotation "( seq -- X )" } } { "result" "a list" } }
{ $description "Get the cartesian product of the lists in " { $snippet "list" } ", filter it by applying each guard quotation to it and call " { $snippet "quot" } " call with each element from the remaining cartesian product items on the stack, the result of which is returned in the final " { $snippet "list" } "." }
{ $examples
{ $code "{ 1 2 3 } >list { 4 5 6 } >list 2list { [ first odd? ] } [ first2 + ] lcomp*" }
} ;
HELP: lmerge
{ $values { "list1" "a list" } { "list2" "a list" } { "result" "lazy list merging list1 and list2" } }
{ $description "Return the result of merging the two lists in a lazy manner." }
{ $examples
{ $example "USING: lists lists.lazy prettyprint ;" "{ 1 2 3 } >list { 4 5 6 } >list lmerge list>array ." "{ 1 4 2 5 3 6 }" }
} ;
HELP: lcontents
{ $values { "stream" "a stream" } { "result" string } }
{ $description "Returns a lazy list of all characters in the file. " { $link car } " returns the next character in the file, " { $link cdr } " returns the remaining characters as a lazy list. " { $link nil? } " indicates end of file." }
{ $see-also llines } ;
HELP: llines
{ $values { "stream" "a stream" } { "result" "a list" } }
{ $description "Returns a lazy list of all lines in the file. " { $link car } " returns the next lines in the file, " { $link cdr } " returns the remaining lines as a lazy list. " { $link nil? } " indicates end of file." }
{ $see-also lcontents } ;