Thanks for the pointers - I’ll take a look.

The background to this is one of the puzzles on Advent Of Code 2016 Q.8.
https://adventofcode.com/2016/day/8

There are (several hundred) sequential  operations on a grid 50 x 6  - initially all zeroes
e.g. 
rotate row y=0 by 4 
rect 2x1 — sets sub grid from (0,0) to (2,1) to all 1s
rotate column x=35 by 1

I’m fine about parsing the input to a data structure and executing them i.e. 

evalExpr :: Expr -> Screen -> Screen     — screen is essentially [[Int]]
evalExpr e s =
    case e of
        (Rect   r c ) ->     evalRect   r c s
        (RotRow r by) -> evalRotRow r by s
        (RotCol c by) -> evalRotCol c by s
        (NOP        ) -> id s

rotating a row was simple enough, code to  rotate column a bit untidy and not very nice. The 
evalRect  - which sets values to one in the rectangle of size r x c starting at (0,0) top left - triggered the original question.


At this point  my knowledge of Haskell is being pushed (which is good) but I have a feeling that 
my approach is not ‘correct’ once it gets beyond the parsing. Should each of the evalRect, evalRotRow and evalRotCol be called with a Screen (i.e. the grid at the root of this question)?
Is the state monad a fit for this problem?
Should I change my approach or is using vector the way forward?

Many thanks

Mike





On 19 Dec 2016, at 15:27, Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com> wrote:

On 12/19/2016 08:10 AM, mike h wrote:
Hi,

I’m looking a problem where I have an NxN grid of ints. I need a
function like setValue x y newVal

I have tried using [[Int]] but it does become messy when splitting ,
dropping and then ++ back together.

What other options are available to represent a mutable grid?


Mutable vectors (from the vector[1] package) are an obvious choice. When
I had to do something similar, I wound up going all the way to repa[2],
which magically turns all of your grid operations into parallel ones.


[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/vector
[2] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/repa

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