Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How would you hack it?

Achim Schneider wrote:

Andrew Coppin wrote:

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I have a file that contains several thousand words, seperated by white space. [I gather that on Unix there's a standard location for this file?] Looking at /usr/share/dict/words, I'm assured that the proper seperator is \n.

Thanks. I did look around trying to find this, but ultimately failed. (Is it a standard component, or is it installed as part of some specific application?) As I understand it, Haskell's "words" function will work on any kind of white space - spaces, line feeds, caridge returns, tabs, etc. - so it should be fine. ;-) Since I'm developing on Windows, what I actually did was have Google find me a file online that I can download. [Remember my post a while back? "GHC panic"? Apparently GHC doesn't like it if you try to represent the entire 400 KB file as a single [String]...]

Generate a Map Int [String] map, with the latter list being an infinite list of words with that particular size.

Now assume that you want to have a 100 character sentence. You start by looking if you got any 100 character word, if yes it's your sentence, if not you divide it in half (maybe offset by a weighted random factor [1]) and start over again.

You can then specify your whole document along the lines of

(capitalise $ words 100) ++ ". " ++ (capitalise $ words 10) ++ "?" ++ (capitalise $ words 20) ++ "oneone1!"

[1] Random midpoint displacement is a very interesting topic by itself.

I'm not following your logic, sorry...