Navigation
Synopsis Group elements in a set given an equivalence function.
Function set[set[&T]] group(set[&T] input, bool (&T a, &T b) similar)
Usage import Set;
Examples We classify animals by their number of legs. 
rascal>import Set;
ok
Create a map from animals to number of legs. 
rascal>legs = ("bird": 2, "dog": 4, "human": 2, "snake": 0, "spider": 8, "millepede": 1000, "crab": 8, "cat": 4);
map[str, int]: ("snake":0,"spider":8,"human":2,"crab":8,"cat":4,"bird":2,"dog":4,"millepede":1000)
Define function nLegs that returns the number of legs fro each animal (or 0 when the animal is unknown): 
rascal>int nLegs(str animal){
>>>>>>>    return legs[animal] ? 0;
>>>>>>>}
int (str): int nLegs(str);
rascal>bool similar(str a, str b) = nLegs(a) == nLegs(b);
bool (str, str): bool similar(str, str);
Now group a set of animals: 
rascal>group({"bird", "dog", "human", "spider", "millepede", "zebra", "crab", "cat"}, similar);
set[set[str]]: {
  {"spider"},
  {"zebra"},
  {"human"},
  {"crab"},
  {"cat"},
  {"bird"},
  {"dog"},
  {"millepede"}
}

Questions
Question [1].
Given 
import Set;
color = ("apple" : "green", "banana" : "yellow", "cucumber" : "green", "berry" : "red");
str getColor(str fruit) = color[fruit] ? "unknown";

group({"apple", "berry", "cucumber", "banana"}, similar)  ==



Is this page unclear, or have you spotted an error? Please add a comment below and help us to improve it. For all other questions and remarks, visit ask.rascal-mpl.org.