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Improve my bland List

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-04 2:25

class List
        attr_reader :car, :cdr, :size
        def initialize(*args)
                if args.size.zero? then
                        @car = nil; @cdr = nil; @size = 0
                elsif args.size == 1
                        @car = args[0]; @cdr = List.new; @size = 1
                else
                        @car = args[0]
                        @cdr = List.new *args[1 .. args.size - 1]
                        @size = args.size
                end
        end
        def [](n)
                raise ArgumentError unless n.class == Fixnum
                unless n > @size - 1 then
                        if n.zero? then @car
                        else @cdr[n - 1] end
                end
        end
        def []=(n,a)
                raise ArgumentError unless n.class == Fixnum
                unless n > @size - 1 then
                        if n.zero? then @car = a
                        else @cdr[n-1] = a end
                else raise ArgumentError
                end
        end
        def length
                @size
        end
        def null?
                @cdr.nil?
        end
        def member?(a)
                if a.nil? then true end
                unless self.null? then
                        if @car == a then true
                        else @cdr.member? a end
                else false
                end
        end
        def include?(a)
                self.member? a
        end
end

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-04 19:18

>>38

yeah, but people often uses lists when ordering is not an issue. Lists are awesome when merging sorted collections in some way. If you need it sorted, and you need to search for random keys, and you need to support random deletion and insertion, then balanced ordered trees are better. If you need it sorted, and will be accessing random keys, but never inserting or removing, then a sorted array with binary search is pretty good, compact, and fast. If you can drop the sorted requirement, then hash tables are nice.

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