Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Programming Languages 2nd edition Tucker and Noonan Chapter 14 Functional Programming It is better to have 100 functions operate one one data structure, than 10 functions on 10 data structures. A. Perlis
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Contents 14.1 Functions and the Lambda Calculus 14.2 Scheme Expressions Expression Evaluation Lists Elementary Values Control Flow Defining Functions Let Expressions Example: Semantics of Clite Example: Symbolic Differentiation Example: Eight Queens 14.3 Haskell
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Example: Semantics of Clite Program state can be modeled as a list of pairs. E.g., ((x 1) (y 5)) Function to retrieve the value of a variable from the state: (define (get id state) (if (equal? id (caar state)) (cadar state) (get id (cdr state)) )) E.g., (get ‘y ‘((x 5) (y 3) (z 1))) = (get ‘y ‘((y 3) (z 1))) = 3
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. State transformation Function to store a new value for a variable in the state: (define (onion id val state) (if (equal? id (caar state)) (cons (list id val) (cdr state)) (cons (car state) (onion id val (cdr state))) )) E.g., (onion ‘y 4 ‘((x 5) (y 3) (z 1))) = (cons ‘(x 5) (onion ‘y 4 ‘((y 3) z 1))) = (cons ‘(x 5) (cons ‘(y 4) ‘((z 1)))) = ‘((x 5) (y 4) (z 1))
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Modeling Clite Abstract Syntax Skip(skip) Assignment(assignment target source) Block(block s1 s2 … sn) Loop(loop test body) Conditional(conditional test thenbranch elsebranch) Expression Value(value val) Variable(variable id) Binary(operator term1 term2)
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Semantics of Statements (define (m-statement statement state) (case (car statement) ((skip) (m-skip statement state)) ((assignment) (m-assignment statement state)) ((block) (m-block (cdr statement) state)) ((loop) (m-loop statement state) ((conditional) (m-conditional statement state)) (else ()) ))
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Skip, Block, and Loop (define (m-skip statement state) state) (define (m-block alist state) (if (null? alist) state (m-block (cdr alist) (m-statement (car alist) state)) )) (define (m-loop) statement state) (if (m-expression (car statement) state) (m-loop statement (m-statement (cdr statement) state)) state ))
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Expression (define (m-expression expr state) (case (car expr) ((value) (cadr expr)) ((variable) (get (cadr expr) state)) (else (applyBinary (car expr) (cadr expr) (caddr expr) state)) )) (define (applyBinary) op left right state) (let ((leftval (m-expression left state)) ((rightval (m-expression right state))) (case op ((plus) (+ leftval rightval)) … ))
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. To Do: 1. Show that these definitions give 5 as the meaning of y+2 in the state ((x 5) (y 3) (z 1)). I.e., show that (m-expression ‘(plus (variable y) (value 2)) ‘((x 5) (y 3) (z 1))) … = 5 2. Give a definition of m-assignment. 3. What about defining m-conditional?
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Example: Symbolic Differentiation Symbolic Differentiation Rules Fig 14.2
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Scheme Encoding 1.Uses Cambridge Prefix notation E.g., 2x + 1 is written as (+ (* 2 x) 1) 2.Function diff incorporates these rules. E.g., (diff ‘x ‘(+ (* 2 x) 1)) should give an answer. 3.However, no simplification is performed. E.g. the answer for (diff ‘x ‘(+ (* 2 x) 1)) is (+ (+ (* 2 1) (* x 0)) 0) which is equivalent to the simplified answer, 2.
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Scheme Program (define (diff x expr) (if (not (list? Expr)) (if (equal? x expr) 1 0) (let ((u (cadr expr)) (v (caddr expr))) (case (car expr) ((+) (list ‘+ (diff x u) (diff x v))) ((-) (list ‘- (diff x u) (diff x v))) ((*) (list ‘+ (list ‘* u (diff x v)) (list ‘* v (diff x u)))) ((/) (list ‘div (list ‘- (list ‘* v (diff x u)) (list ‘* u (diff x v))) (list ‘* u v))) ))))
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Trace of the Example (diff ‘x ‘(+ ‘(* 2 x) 1)) = (list ‘+ (diff ‘x ‘(*2 x)) (diff ‘x 1)) = (list ‘+ (list ‘+ (list ‘* 2 (diff ‘x ‘x)) (list ‘* x (diff ‘x 2))) (diff ‘x 1)) = (list ‘+ (list ‘+ (list ‘* 2 1) (list ‘* x (diff ‘x 2))) (diff ‘x 1)) = (list ‘+ (list ‘+ ‘(* 2 1) (list ‘* x (diff ‘x 2))) (diff ‘x 1)) = (list ‘+ (list ‘+ ‘(* 2 1) (list ‘* x (diff ‘x 2))) (diff ‘x 1)) = (list ‘+ (list ‘+ ‘(* 2 1) (list ‘* x 0)) 0) = ‘(+ (+ (* 2 1) (* x 0)) 0)
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Example: Eight Queens A backtracking algorithm for which each trial move’s: 1.Row must not be occupied, 2.Row and column’s SW diagonal must not be occupied, and 3.Row and column’s SE diagonal must not be occupied. If a trial move fails any of these tests, the program backtracks and tries another. The process continues until each row has a queen (or until all moves have been tried).
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Checking for a Valid Move (define (valid move soln) (let ((col (length (cons move soln)))) (and (not (member move soln)) (not (member (seDiag move col) (selist soln))) (not (member (swDiag move col) (swlist soln))) ))) Note: the and encodes the three rules listed on the previous slide.
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Representing the Developing Solution Positions of the queens kept in a list soln whose nth entry gives the row position of the queen in column n, in reverse order. E.g., soln = (5 3 1) represents queens in (row, column) positions (1,1), (3,2), and (5,3); i.e., see previous slide. End of the game occurs when soln has N (= 8) entries: (define (done soln) (>= (length soln) N)) Continuing the game tests hasmore and generates nextmove : (define (hasmore move) (<= move N)) (define (nextmove move) (+ move 1)
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Generating Trial Moves (define (trywh move soln) (if (and (hasmore move) (not (car soln))) (let ((atry (tryone move (cdr soln)))) (if (car atry) atry (trywh (nextmove move) soln)) ) soln )) The try function sets up the first move: (define (try soln) (trywh 1 (cons #f soln)))
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Trying One Move (define (tryone move soln) (let ((xsoln (cons move soln))) (if (valid move soln) (if (done xsoln) (cons #t xsoln) (try xsoln)) (cons #f soln)) )) Note: the #t or #f reveals whether the solution is complete.
Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. SW and SE Diagonals (define (swdiag row col) (+ row col)) (define (sediag row col) (- row col)) (define (swlist alist) (if (null? Alist) ‘() (cons (swDiag (car alist) (length alist)) (swlist (cdr alist))))) (define (selist alist) (if (null? Alist) ‘() (cons (seDiag (car alist) (length alist)) (selist (cdr alist)))))