...
- (10 pts.)
boolean contains(int key)
returnstrue
ifkey
is in the list,false
otherwise. Name you visitor classContainsVisitor
.) - (10 pts.)
int reverse()
constructs a list that is the reversal of this. Name your visitor classReverseVisitor
. Hint: this computation is faster and simpler if you introduce a help "method" that takes an argument (also a visitor). - (10 pts.)
int sum()
computes the sum of the elements in the list. Name your visitor class SumVisitor. - (10 pts.)
double average()
computes the average of the elements in the list; returns0
if the list is empty. Name your visitor classAverageVisitor
. Hint: you can cast anint
todouble
by using the prefix casting operator(double)
. - (10 pts.)
IntList notGreaterThan(int bound)
returns a list of elements in this list that are less than or equal tobound
. Name your visitor classNotGreaterThanVisitor
. - (10 pts.)
IntList remove(int key)
returns a list of all elements in this list that are not equal tokey
. Name your visitor class RemoveVisitor - (10 pts.)
IntList subst(int oldN, int newN)
returns a list of all elements in this list witholdN
replaced bynewN
. Name your visitor class SubstVisitor - (15 pts.)
IntList merge(IntList other)
merges this list with the input list other, assuming that this list and other are sorted in ascending order. Note that the lists need not have the same length. Name your visitor classMergeVisitor
. Hint: add a "method"mergeHelp(ConsIntList other)
that does all of the work if one list is non-empty (aConsIntList
). OnlymergeHelp
is recursive. Use dynamic dispatch on the list that may be empty. Recall thata.merge(b)
is equivalent tob.merge(a)
. You can formulate help methods as visitors. - (15 pts.)
IntList mergeSort()
. Leveraging themerge
"method" you just wrote (as a visitor), writemergeSort()
that sorts anIntList.
Recall that you need to write a help function that splits a list approximately in two.
Testing Tricks
In Racket, the equal?
function performs structural equality. Java does not include such a built-in operation. For the IntList
composite type, we overrode the inherited equals
method (trivially defined in class Object
) by an equals method that implements structural equality but it is slightly more complex than you might expect. Recall that the argument passed to equal
has type Object
. Hence, we have to worry about the class of the argument; the simple (and IMO best) definition of structural equality is to mandate that objects cannot be equal unless they are instances of the same class. Study the definition of the equals
method in class ConsIntList
. Unfortunately, we can write the body of this method the return
of a boolean-valued expression, because Java does not support a notion of local
or let
at the level of expressions. So the body is an if
statement where explicit return
statements in the consequent statement and alternative statement. Notice that we still programmed in a functional style without any mutation.
To test the computations that yield results of composite type, we can either define structural equality over the composite type (as we did for IntList
) or write an intelligible toString method for the composite type (which I strongly recommend for debugging purposes) and compare the toString()
representations of the composite type. But beware that toString()
equality may not imply structural equality and vice versa. You should always endeavor to make them agree.