Day 3: Mull It Over

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  • lwhjp@lemmy.sdf.org
    4·
    20 days ago

    Haskell

    Oof, a parsing problem :/ This is some nasty-ass code. step is almost the State monad written out explicitly.

    Solution 
    import Control.Monad
import Data.Either
import Data.List
import Text.Parsec

data Ins = Mul !Int !Int | Do | Dont

readInput :: String -> [Ins]
readInput = fromRight undefined . parse input ""
  where
    input = many ins <* many anyChar
    ins =
      choice . map try $
        [ Mul <$> (string "mul(" *> arg) <*> (char ',' *> arg) <* char ')',
          Do <$ string "do()",
          Dont <$ string "don't()",
          anyChar *> ins
        ]
    arg = do
      s <- many1 digit
      guard $ length s <= 3
      return $ read s

run f = snd . foldl' step (True, 0)
  where
    step (e, a) i =
      case i of
        Mul x y -> (e, if f e then a + x * y else a)
        Do -> (True, a)
        Dont -> (False, a)

main = do
  input <- readInput <$> readFile "input03"
  print $ run (const True) input
  print $ run id input
    • VegOwOtenks@lemmy.world
      2·
      20 days ago

      Love to see you chewing through this parsing problem in Haskell, I didn’t dare use Parsec because I wasn’t confident enough.
      Why did you decide to have a strict definition of Mul !Int !Int?

      • kintrix@linux.communityEnglish
        3·
        20 days ago

        My guess is because a linter and/or HLS was suggesting it. I know HLS used to suggest making your fields strict in almost all cases. In this case I have a hunch that it slightly cuts down on memory usage because we use almost all Muls either way. So it does not need to keep the string it is parsed from in memory as part of the thunk.

        But it probably makes a small/negligible difference here.

        • lwhjp@lemmy.sdf.org
          3·
          20 days ago

          Yep, HLS suggested it, and I figured since I’m definitely going to be using all of the values (in part one, at least), why not?

          Normally I ignore that kind of nitpicky suggestion though.