Write this accumuator in a functional style
Paul Rubin
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Thu Jul 13 05:48:22 EDT 2017
Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
> Maybe I'm completely on the wrong track here, but the last time I
> implemented a self-balancing tree, it usually involved a fair amount
> of mutation.
AVL trees are fairly simple to implement without mutation. Red-black
trees are traditionally implemented with mutation, inserting by making
nodes mis-colored, then going and re-coloring them. But they can be
done mutation-free as well. Here's an amazing Haskell implementation
where the tree invariants are encoded in the datatype:
https://gist.github.com/rampion/2659812
Reddit discussion of above: https://redd.it/ti5il
More recent versions of GHC make the type signatures even nicer, since
you can put numbers directly into types without that nested type encoding.
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