List Ops

Instructions

Implement basic list operations.

In functional languages list operations like length, map, and reduce are very common. Implement a series of basic list operations, without using existing functions.

The precise number and names of the operations to be implemented will be track dependent to avoid conflicts with existing names, but the general operations you will implement include:

• append (given two lists, add all items in the second list to the end of the first list);
• concatenate (given a series of lists, combine all items in all lists into one flattened list);
• filter (given a predicate and a list, return the list of all items for which predicate(item) is True);
• length (given a list, return the total number of items within it);
• map (given a function and a list, return the list of the results of applying function(item) on all items);
• foldl (given a function, a list, and initial accumulator, fold (reduce) each item into the accumulator from the left);
• foldr (given a function, a list, and an initial accumulator, fold (reduce) each item into the accumulator from the right);
• reverse (given a list, return a list with all the original items, but in reversed order).

Note, the ordering in which arguments are passed to the fold functions (foldl, foldr) is significant.

Implementing List operations

The goal of this exercise is to implement some of List methods yourself. It's natural to use a List object in the backend to hold the data. Keep your hands off the List methods (like where, map, etc).

There are a some "primitive" List operations that are unavoidable, such as:

• slicing: list[from..to]
• adding: list.add(item)

Iterator protocol

The list operations to implement are all about iterating in various ways. Read about the iterator protocol. Then you'll be able to do:

var list = ListOps.new([1, 2, 3, 4])
for (item in list) {
    do_something_with(item)
}