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authorShinya Sato <shinnya.sato@gmail.com>2022-07-28 14:41:04 +0900
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@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ Inpla has built-in agents:
* `Nil`, `Cons(x,xs)`, written as `[]` and `x:xs`, respectively.
* A nested `Cons` terminated with `Nil` are written as a list notation using brackets `[` and `]`. For instance, `x1 : x2: x3 : Nil` is written as `[x1,x2,x3]` .
-#### Built-in rules for tuples and lists
+### Built-in rules for tuples and lists
There are built-in rules for the same built-in agents that each element is matched and connected such that:
@@ -260,17 +260,6 @@ There are built-in rules for the same built-in agents that each element is match
(x1,x2)><(y1,y2) => x1~y1, x2~y2 // This is already defined as a built-in rule.
```
-We also have a built-in agent `Append` to append two lists as shown in the following pseudo code:
-
-```
-Append(r, listB) ~ listA --> r ~ (listA ++ listB) // pseudo code
-```
-The order `listB` and `listA` seems something strange, so a special abbreviation notation is prepared:
-```
-r << Append(listA, listB) == for == Append(r, listB)~listA
-```
-
-
* Examples of the built-in rules:
```
@@ -291,6 +280,20 @@ r << Append(listA, listB) == for == Append(r, listB)~listA
>>>
```
+#### Append a list to the end of another list
+We also have a built-in agent `Append` to append a list `listB` to the end of another list `listA` as shown in the following pseudo code:
+
+```
+Append(r, listB) ~ listA --> r ~ (listA ++ listB) // pseudo code
+```
+The order `listB` and `listA` seems something strange, so a special abbreviation notation is prepared:
+```
+r << Append(listA, listB) == for == Append(r, listB)~listA
+```
+
+
+
+
```
>>> Append(r, [Z, S(Z)]) ~ [A,B,C];
(4 interactions, 0.00 sec)
@@ -310,6 +313,23 @@ r << Append(listA, listB) == for == Append(r, listB)~listA
>>>
```
+#### `Zip`: it makes two lists into a list of pairs
+A built-in agent `Zip` takes two lists and returns a list whose elements are pairs of the given two lists such as:
+```
+Zip(r,[1,2,...])~[10,20,...] -->* r~[(1,10),(2,20),...].
+```
+The length of the result will be the same to the shorter one in the given lists:
+```
+Zip(r,[1,2])~[10,20,30,...] -->* r~[(1,10),(2,20)].
+```
+We can write it with the abbreviation as well:
+```
+>>> r << Zip([1,2,3], [10,20,30]);
+(8 interactions, 0.00 sec)
+>>> r; free r;
+[(1,10),(2,20),(3,30)]
+>>>
+```
### Eraser