[Purdue-pm] challenge problem for next meeting?
Mark Daniel Ward
mdw at purdue.edu
Wed Jul 29 09:02:56 PDT 2015
Dear Mark,
That's a pretty interesting question (to me, at least), because I study
retrieval trees in my research, and this is a very closely related
topic. I am eager to see what contributions that people make! I am
assuming you have an amazing way to do this in Perl 6.
Mark
On 7/29/15 10:59 AM, Mark Senn wrote:
> Is there interest in this challenge problem for the next meeting?
> Write back if you'll talk, email, or blog about your solution.
> Given a list of names, for example
> Abe
> Alan
> Ben
> Cat
> Cathy
> print a list of all names, shortening them as much
> as possible, with them still remaining unique, like this
> Ab
> Abe
> Al
> Ala
> Alan
> B
> Be
> Ben
> Cat
> Cath
> Cathy
> in Perl 5 and Perl 6.
>
> Read the names from a Perl data section one name per line.
> Do error checking to make sure you aren't given duplicate names.
> Perl 6 has grammars
> http://doc.perl6.org/language/grammars
> and sets, bags, and mixes:
> http://doc.perl6.org/language/setbagmix
>
> -mark
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