[Haskell-beginners] Game of Life try

[KC]

Thinking about Bird's handling of Sudoku; it may be efficiently
possible to represent colonies as lists (or trees).
Then one just has to consider the merging and splitting of colonies.

Usually, all the space in a cell array is not used anyway. :)



On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:27 PM, KC <kc1956 at gmail.com> wrote:
> You might want to look at the chapter on Sudoku (and the whole book)
> in "Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design" by Richard Bird.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Емануела Моллова
> <emanuela.mollova at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all! :) I'm new to Haskell and I would like to try to implement a
>> simple version of Game of Life. I can imagine it in C++ for example, but I
>> have a little difficulties in Haskell. All I can think for is a mutable
>> array with all elements - 0 in the beginning and the user to be able to
>> write in the coordinates of the cells, which are alive and this cells to
>> become 1. Then to iterate through the array (but I'm not sure if I can
>> iterate, there is no 'while' here) and to make the changes (but maybe I will
>> need a new array for the changes, because when the first change happens, it
>> will affect the result). Also I was thinking of how to make it visible, so I
>> tried to make all 0-s red and all 1-s green, and after each iteration to
>> clear the screen with ANSI so that it looks a bit like animation, but none
>> of these ideas work... Here is an orientation in my ideas:
>>
>> import Data.Array.IO
>> import System.Console.ANSI
>>
>> main :: IO ()
>> main = do
>>         arr <- newArray ((1,1), (10,10)) 0 :: IO (IOArray (Int, Int) Int)
>> writeAraay arr (1,1) 1
>> a <- readArray (1,1)
>> setSGR [SetColor Foreground Dull Red]
>>         putStr [a]
>>
>> Could you please suggest me what is a good place to store the information
>> about my cells (mutable, unmutable array, lists, tuples...) and any ideas
>> and tutorials at all would be really appreciated! Thank you very much in
>> advance! :)
>>
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> Regards,
> KC



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