[Haskell-cafe] Help with generalizing function

[Ryan Ingram]

Hint: use recursion.

Hint 2: You can use <- in a list comprehension or list "do"-block to
select a single list from a list of lists.

  -- ryan

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:30 PM, leledumbo <leledumbo_cool at yahoo.co.id> wrote:
>
> I've successfully create a function to return lists of N-ple that satisfy the
> following function:
> x1 + x2 + x3 + ... + xN = C
> But unfortunately, it's not generic. The N is supposed to be an input, too.
> I don't know how to make a dynamic N-ple (is it possible anyway?).
> Currently, here's the implementation:
> [code]
> findAllAns c = [ (x1,x2,x3,x4,x5) |
>    x1 <- [0..c],
>    x2 <- [0..c],
>    x3 <- [0..c],
>    x4 <- [0..c],
>    x5 <- [0..c],
>    x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 + x5 == c
>  ]
> [/code]
> I tried using lists of lists, like this:
> [code]
> findAllAns c n = [ [x] | x <- [0..c], length [x] == n ]
> [/code]
> but [x] doesn't mean "a list of x", instead it's "a list that contains an x,
> where x in [0..c]". Can anyone help me?
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