[Haskell-cafe] How to give unique name/id to nodes outside any
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Thu Jan 8 03:49:04 EST 2009
2009/1/8 Luke Palmer <lrpalmer at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:28 AM, minh thu <noteed at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to process some kind of graph data structure,
>> say something like
>> data DS = A [DS] | B DS DS | C.
>> but I want to be able to discover any sharing.
>> Thus, in
>> b = B a a where a = A [C],
>> if I want to malloc a similar data structure,
>> I have to handle to the node representing B
>> two times the same pointer (the one returned
>> after allocating A [C]).
>> To discover sharing, I thought it would be
>> necessary to give unique name to node and
>> then compare them while traversing the graph.
>> I could give the name by hand but it would be
>> cumbersome. But at least it would not require
>> any monad for the bookkeeping of ungiven
>> names. Is it possible to give those names
>> automatically but outside any monad ?
> If your graphs are acyclic, then you can label each node with a hash and use
> that for comparison. This usually works very well in practice.
Precisely ! How do you give that label to each node; i.e. how to
ensure they are unique ?
I don't want to end up with
c <- newNodeC
a <- newNodeA [c]
b <- newNodeB a a
where newNodeX hides the handling of label.
I'd like to simply write, like above,
b = B a a where a = A [C]
b = B label a a where a = A label [C]
The question is : how can label be different each time ?
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