ImmutableList Assignment

Code To Investigate

interface ImmutableList<E>

public interface ImmutableList<E> extends Iterable<E> {
	/**
	 * @return the head value if it is present
	 * @throws NoSuchElementException if empty
	 */
	E head();

	/**
	 * @return the tail if it is present
	 * @throws NoSuchElementException if empty
	 */
	ImmutableList<E> tail();

	/**
	 * @return true if empty, false otherwise
	 */
	boolean isEmpty();
}

Code To Implement

Utilities

Lists

class:	Lists.java
methods:	nil cons brackets
package:	immutable.list.assignment
source folder:	src/main/java

nil

public static <E> ImmutableList<E> nil()

Constructs a new empty list, analogous to the nil constructor for SML List.

cons

public static <E> ImmutableList<E> cons(E head, ImmutableList<E> tail)

Constructs a new list comprised of head::tail, analogous to the :: constructor for SML List.

brackets

public static <E> ImmutableList<E> brackets(E... elements)

Constructs an ImmutableList<E> whose contents are defined by the elements passed in.

The parameter E... arguments is an example usage of varargs in Java. You can treat parameter elements as if it is an E[]. The varargs ... simply allows for more convenient invocations of the brackets method.

In order to build this method, consider added a private static helper method to perform the actual work.

It is suggested that you adopt a recursive approach to solving this problem. What is the base case? What is the recursive case?

enum EmptyImmutableList

class:	EmptyImmutableList.java
methods:	constructor isEmpty head tail
package:	immutable.list.assignment
source folder:	src/main/java

/* package-private */ enum EmptyImmutableList implements ImmutableList<Object>

WARNING: you need NOT implement iterator() now. That will be the subject of a future studio.

constructor

What fields, if any, are required as state for an empty list?

isEmpty

Hey EmptyImmutableList, are you empty?

class NonEmptyImmutableList<E>

class:	NonEmptyImmutableList.java
methods:	constructor isEmpty head tail
package:	immutable.list.assignment
source folder:	src/main/java

/* package-private */ enum EmptyImmutableList implements ImmutableList<Object>

WARNING: you need NOT implement iterator() now. That will be the subject of a future studio.

Apps

NOTE: Since the constructors on our implementations are package protected, you will need to use nil() and cons(head,tail).

Length

class:	Length.java
methods:	length
package:	immutable.list.apps.assignment
source folder:	src/main/java

public static <E> int length(ImmutableList<E> list)

Compute the length of an arbitrary ImmutableList<E>.

SumProductCountdownFactorial

class:	SumProductCountdownFactorial.java
methods:	sum product countdown factorial
package:	immutable.list.apps.assignment
source folder:	src/main/java

sum

public static int sum(ImmutableList<Integer> xs)

Compute the sum of all the items in an ImmutableList<Integer>.

product

public static int product(ImmutableList<Integer> xs)

Compute the produce all the items in an ImmutableList<Integer>.

countdown

public static ImmutableList<Integer> countdown(int n)

Produce a new list which contains the values from n down to 1. For example, countdown(5) would produce the list [5,4,3,2,1].

factorial

public static int factorial(int n)

Can you implement this method using the methods you have already created?

Concat

class:	Concat.java
methods:	concat
package:	immutable.list.apps.assignment
source folder:	src/main/java

public static <E> ImmutableList<E> concat(ImmutableList<E> xs, ImmutableList<E> ys)

Concatenate one list on to another.

Test

class:	ImmutableListTestSuite.java
package:	immutable.list.assignment
source folder:	src/test/java

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