davearonson's solution to Accumulate on the Elixir track

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Implement the accumulate operation, which, given a collection and an operation to perform on each element of the collection, returns a new collection containing the result of applying that operation to each element of the input collection.

Given the collection of numbers:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

And the operation:

square a number (x => x * x)

Your code should be able to produce the collection of squares:

1, 4, 9, 16, 25

Check out the test suite to see the expected function signature.

Restrictions

Keep your hands off that collect/map/fmap/whatchamacallit functionality provided by your standard library! Solve this one yourself using other basic tools instead.

Running tests

Execute the tests with:

$ elixir accumulate_test.exs

Pending tests

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# @tag :pending
test "shouting" do
  assert Bob.hey("WATCH OUT!") == "Whoa, chill out!"
end

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# ExUnit.configure exclude: :pending, trace: true

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accumulate_test.exs

if !System.get_env("EXERCISM_TEST_EXAMPLES") do
  Code.load_file("accumulate.exs", __DIR__)
end

ExUnit.start()
ExUnit.configure(exclude: :pending, trace: true)

defmodule AccumulateTest do
  use ExUnit.Case

  test "accumulate empty list" do
    assert Accumulate.accumulate([], fn n -> n * n end) == []
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "accumulate square numbers" do
    assert Accumulate.accumulate([1, 2, 3], fn n -> n * n end) == [1, 4, 9]
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "accumulate upcased strings" do
    fun = fn w -> String.upcase(w) end
    assert Accumulate.accumulate(["hello", "world"], fun) == ["HELLO", "WORLD"]
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "accumulate reversed strings" do
    fun = fn w -> String.reverse(w) end
    words = ~w(the quick brown fox etc)
    expected = ["eht", "kciuq", "nworb", "xof", "cte"]
    assert Accumulate.accumulate(words, fun) == expected
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "nested accumulate" do
    chars = ~w(a b c)
    nums = ~w(1 2 3)
    fun = fn c -> Accumulate.accumulate(nums, &(c <> &1)) end
    expected = [["a1", "a2", "a3"], ["b1", "b2", "b3"], ["c1", "c2", "c3"]]
    assert Accumulate.accumulate(chars, fun) == expected
  end
end

defmodule Accumulate do
  @doc """
    Given a list and a function, apply the function to each list item and
    replace it with the function's return value.

    Returns a list.

    ## Examples

      iex> Accumulate.accumulate([], fn(x) -> x * 2 end)
      []

      iex> Accumulate.accumulate([1, 2, 3], fn(x) -> x * 2 end)
      [2, 4, 6]

  """

  @spec accumulate(list, (any -> any)) :: list
  def accumulate(list, fun) do
    do_accumulate(list, fun)
  end

  defp do_accumulate([], fun), do: []
  defp do_accumulate([head|rest], fun) do
    [fun.(head)|do_accumulate(rest, fun)]
  end

end

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