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Lazy evaluation on lists (a la Perl6) with Lua... [ FIXED ]
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#!/usr/bin/lua | |
-- Perl6 example -- | |
--[[ | |
my @xs := gather { | |
my $x = 0; | |
my $y = 1; | |
while True { | |
take $x; | |
($x, $y) = ($y, $x + $y); | |
} | |
} | |
for @xs -> $x { | |
say $x; | |
sleep 1; | |
} | |
]]-- | |
-- Lua version -- | |
-- as like Perl 6 ':=" operator -- | |
function bind (lambda) | |
local glue = { | |
-- lazy assignment -- | |
__index = function (table, key) | |
if key > 0 then | |
local value | |
for index = 1, key do | |
if not rawget (table, index) then | |
value = lambda ( ) | |
rawset (table, index, value) | |
end | |
end | |
return table[ key ] | |
end | |
end, | |
-- iterator -- | |
__call = function (table) | |
local index = 0 | |
return function ( ) | |
index = index + 1 | |
return table[ index ] | |
end | |
end | |
} | |
return setmetatable ({ }, glue) | |
end | |
-- short alias Perl6 like -- | |
local gather = coroutine.wrap | |
local take = coroutine.yield | |
-- lazy assignment test -- | |
-- fibonacci sequence -- | |
local xs = bind (gather (function ( ) | |
local x = 0 | |
local y = 1 | |
while true do | |
take (x) | |
x, y = y, x + y | |
end | |
end)) | |
-- iterator test -- | |
-- loop forever -- | |
for x in xs( ) do | |
print (x) | |
os.execute "sleep 1" | |
end | |
-- end of script -- |
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