angelikatyborska's solution to Accumulate on the Erlang track

Instructions

Test suite

Solution

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

In order to run the tests, issue the following command from the exercise directory:

For running the tests provided, rebar3 is used as it is the official build and dependency management tool for erlang now. Please refer to the tracks installation instructions on how to do that.

In order to run the tests, you can issue the following command from the exercise directory.

$ rebar3 eunit

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Source

Conversation with James Edward Gray II https://twitter.com/jeg2

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accumulate_tests.erl

-module(accumulate_tests).

-include_lib("erl_exercism/include/exercism.hrl").
-include_lib("eunit/include/eunit.hrl").

accumulate_empty_list_test() ->
  Fn = fun() -> ok end,
  Ls = [],
  ?assertEqual([], accumulate:accumulate(Fn, Ls)).

accumulate_squares_test() ->
  Fn = fun(Number) -> Number * Number end,
  Ls = [1, 2, 3],
  ?assertEqual([1, 4, 9], accumulate:accumulate(Fn, Ls)).

accumulate_upcases_test() ->
  Fn = fun(Word) -> string:to_upper(Word) end,
  Ls = string:tokens("hello world", " "),
  ?assertEqual(["HELLO", "WORLD"], accumulate:accumulate(Fn, Ls)).

accumulate_reversed_strings_test() ->
  Fn = fun(Word) -> lists:reverse(Word) end,
  Ls = string:tokens("the quick brown fox etc", " "),
  ?assertEqual(["eht", "kciuq", "nworb", "xof", "cte"], accumulate:accumulate(Fn, Ls)).

accumulate_recursively_test() ->
  Chars = string:tokens("a b c", " "),
  Nums = string:tokens("1 2 3", " "),
  Fn = fun(Char) -> [Char ++ Num || Num <- Nums] end,
  ?assertEqual([["a1", "a2", "a3"], ["b1", "b2", "b3"], ["c1", "c2", "c3"]], accumulate:accumulate(Fn, Chars)).

-module(accumulate).

-export([accumulate/2]).

accumulate(Fn, List) ->
  accumulate(Fn, List, []).

accumulate(_Fn, [], Acc) ->
  reverse(Acc);

accumulate(Fn, [H | T], Acc) ->
  accumulate(Fn, T, [Fn(H) | Acc]).

reverse(List) ->
  reverse(List, []).

reverse([], Acc) ->
  Acc;

reverse([H | T], Acc) ->
  reverse(T, [H | Acc]).

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