[Proposal] Range.contains?
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Patrick Davey
Dec 20, 2016, 4:43:07 PM12/20/16
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I wanted to check if a range contained another range today while I was doing one of the www.adventofcode.com puzzles.
I discussed it on the forum and I have done a search and it doesn't look like it has been proposed before, apologies if I have missed something.
Anyway, just an idea, I'm happy to have a go at implementing it if it's something which merits approval. I understand if it's too simple a thing to be bothered implementing.
Thanks to the team for Elixir - I'm thoroughly enjoying getting more comfortable with it through the advent of code puzzles :)
I discussed it on the forum and I have done a search and it doesn't look like it has been proposed before, apologies if I have missed something.
Anyway, just an idea, I'm happy to have a go at implementing it if it's something which merits approval. I understand if it's too simple a thing to be bothered implementing.
Thanks to the team for Elixir - I'm thoroughly enjoying getting more comfortable with it through the advent of code puzzles :)
Drew Olson
Dec 20, 2016, 4:46:51 PM12/20/16
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I believe you want `Enum.member?(1..10, 1)`
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José Valim
Dec 20, 2016, 4:47:40 PM12/20/16
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Is there any reason to use Range.contains? given you can already do "x in range" or "Enum.member?(range, x)" (they are equivalent).
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Paul Schoenfelder
Dec 20, 2016, 4:53:39 PM12/20/16
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I think he is looking for a Range function which answers whether a range is a subset of another range, e.g. 1..10 contains 2..4 == true.
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José Valim
Dec 20, 2016, 4:55:54 PM12/20/16
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If so, it may be a good addition but a better name is required, such as overlaps? or subset?.
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Paul Schoenfelder
Dec 20, 2016, 4:59:03 PM12/20/16
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I like the idea of instead implementing Range.subset?/2 similar to MapSet.subset?/2.
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Drew Olson
Dec 20, 2016, 4:59:07 PM12/20/16
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I was working on the same problem today and would have also found it useful to have something like `Range.first/1` and `Range.last/1` for accessing the inclusive bounds (these are probably terrible names).
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Paul Schoenfelder
Dec 20, 2016, 5:00:55 PM12/20/16
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Drew, you can use r.first and r.last, where r is the binding for the range in question. Ranges are a struct with first and last fields.
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José Valim
Dec 20, 2016, 5:01:38 PM12/20/16
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You can also pattern match on the range first and last:
first .. last = range
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Drew Olson
Dec 20, 2016, 5:05:58 PM12/20/16
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Thanks Jose and Paul, I'll be sure to take a closer look at the documented struct types in the future.
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eksperimental
Dec 20, 2016, 5:07:14 PM12/20/16
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I proposed this in the past. Code is still valid today as very little changes have been done to the
Range module.
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:23:39 +0700
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I have created a set of functions for the range module.
Initially, I based my work in functions written by "jdl"
https://github.com/mykewould/crutches/blob/ddf5535d66601f9630bee1807ef38cb57f52b9b4/lib/crutches/range.ex
You can have a look at the module and tests:
https://github.com/eksperimental/elixir/blob/range/lib/elixir/lib/range.ex
https://github.com/eksperimental/elixir/blob/range/lib/elixir/test/elixir/range_test.exs
New functions are: congruent?/2, disjoint?2, contiguous?/2,
intersection/2, member?/2, overlaps?/2, reverse/1, size/1, sort/2,
subset?/2, to_list/2, union/2
Some functions have been taken from MapSet, and other apply exclusively
to Range.
Please let me know what you think of this.
And if there is an interest in adding this Elixir, I will have to
contact the author of the initial functions for release permission.
Cheers
On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 16:00:33 -0600
Paul Schoenfelder <paulscho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Drew, you can use r.first and r.last, where r is the binding for the range
> in question. Ranges are a struct with first and last fields.
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Drew Olson <dr...@drewolson.org> wrote:
>
> > I was working on the same problem today and would have also found it
> > useful to have something like `Range.first/1` and `Range.last/1` for
> > accessing the inclusive bounds (these are probably terrible names).
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 3:55 PM, José Valim <jose....@plataformatec.com.
> > br> wrote:
> >
> >> If so, it may be a good addition but a better name is required, such as
> >> overlaps? or subset?.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> *José Valim*
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Range module.
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:23:39 +0700
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I have created a set of functions for the range module.
Initially, I based my work in functions written by "jdl"
https://github.com/mykewould/crutches/blob/ddf5535d66601f9630bee1807ef38cb57f52b9b4/lib/crutches/range.ex
You can have a look at the module and tests:
https://github.com/eksperimental/elixir/blob/range/lib/elixir/lib/range.ex
https://github.com/eksperimental/elixir/blob/range/lib/elixir/test/elixir/range_test.exs
New functions are: congruent?/2, disjoint?2, contiguous?/2,
intersection/2, member?/2, overlaps?/2, reverse/1, size/1, sort/2,
subset?/2, to_list/2, union/2
Some functions have been taken from MapSet, and other apply exclusively
to Range.
Please let me know what you think of this.
And if there is an interest in adding this Elixir, I will have to
contact the author of the initial functions for release permission.
Cheers
On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 16:00:33 -0600
Paul Schoenfelder <paulscho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Drew, you can use r.first and r.last, where r is the binding for the range
> in question. Ranges are a struct with first and last fields.
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Drew Olson <dr...@drewolson.org> wrote:
>
> > I was working on the same problem today and would have also found it
> > useful to have something like `Range.first/1` and `Range.last/1` for
> > accessing the inclusive bounds (these are probably terrible names).
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 3:55 PM, José Valim <jose....@plataformatec.com.
> > br> wrote:
> >
> >> If so, it may be a good addition but a better name is required, such as
> >> overlaps? or subset?.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> www.plataformatec.com.br
> >> Skype: jv.ptec
> >> Founder and Director of R&D
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Paul Schoenfelder <
> >> paulscho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I think he is looking for a Range function which answers whether a range
> >>> is a subset of another range, e.g. 1..10 contains 2..4 == true.
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 3:47 PM, José Valim <
> >>> jose....@plataformatec.com.br> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Is there any reason to use Range.contains? given you can already do "x
> >>>> in range" or "Enum.member?(range, x)" (they are equivalent).
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> *José Valim*
> >> Skype: jv.ptec
> >> Founder and Director of R&D
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Paul Schoenfelder <
> >> paulscho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I think he is looking for a Range function which answers whether a range
> >>> is a subset of another range, e.g. 1..10 contains 2..4 == true.
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 3:47 PM, José Valim <
> >>> jose....@plataformatec.com.br> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Is there any reason to use Range.contains? given you can already do "x
> >>>> in range" or "Enum.member?(range, x)" (they are equivalent).
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> www.plataformatec.com.br
> >>>> Skype: jv.ptec
> >>>> Founder and Director of R&D
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Patrick Davey <
> >>>> patric...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I wanted to check if a range contained another range today while I was
> >>>>> doing one of the www.adventofcode.com puzzles.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I discussed it on the forum and I have done a search and it doesn't
> >>>>> look like it has been proposed before, apologies if I have missed something.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Anyway, just an idea, I'm happy to have a go at implementing it if
> >>>>> it's something which merits approval. I understand if it's too simple a
> >>>>> thing to be bothered implementing.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks to the team for Elixir - I'm thoroughly enjoying getting more
> >>>>> comfortable with it through the advent of code puzzles :)
> >>>>>
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> >>>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Patrick Davey <
> >>>> patric...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I wanted to check if a range contained another range today while I was
> >>>>> doing one of the www.adventofcode.com puzzles.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I discussed it on the forum and I have done a search and it doesn't
> >>>>> look like it has been proposed before, apologies if I have missed something.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Anyway, just an idea, I'm happy to have a go at implementing it if
> >>>>> it's something which merits approval. I understand if it's too simple a
> >>>>> thing to be bothered implementing.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks to the team for Elixir - I'm thoroughly enjoying getting more
> >>>>> comfortable with it through the advent of code puzzles :)
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Aleksei Magusev
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I believe we can wait with addition of such function in stdlib until more use cases arise besides code puzzle.
Another reason for waiting is that the code for checking this looks fairly straightforward:
first1..last1 = range1
first2..last2 = range2
first1 >= first2 and last1 <= last2
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