in reply to getting my neighbours in an N-dimensional space

Hmmm, tye's solution provides insight to another: 
# You might already have this type of function available.  
# If not, it's needed for the next part:
sub same_coord
{
   my ($aref, $bref) = @_;
   my @acoord = @$aref;
   my @bcoord = @$bref;
   return 0 if ( scalar @acoord != scalar @bcoord );
   foreach my $i ( 0..$#accord ) {
      return 0 if ( $acoord[$i] != $bcoord[$i] );
   }
   return 1;
}

sub get_neighbors {
   my @coord = @_;
   my @n = ( [] );
   foreach my $i ( 0..$#coord ) {
      @n = map { @left = @$_; 
                 map { [ @left, $_ ] } ( $coord[$i]-1..$coord[$i]+1)
               } @n;

   }
   @n = grep { !same_coord( \@coord, $_ ) } @n;

   return @n;
}

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Re: Re: getting my neighbours in an N-dimensional space
by dash2 (Hermit) on Jan 21, 2002 at 21:33 UTC
    I like this one best. That is a clever way of hiding recursion within a loop, rather than farming it out to some subroutine.

    Although closures are admittedly sexy.

    dave hj~

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      Note that I didn't choose a closure because it is sexy. I chose it because I wanted to produce an iterator so that I didn't have to worry about when 3**$N would get too large that I start running out of memory. Perhaps you were only worried about very small values of $N. And I just prefer iterators. (:

              - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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      As one of your later posts implies you wanted points strictly closer to the origin, here's a quick function that helps to do that: 
      sub closer_to_origin {
   my ( $start, $test ) = @_;

   my $sd = 0; $sd += $_*$_ foreach (@$start);
   my $td = 0; $td += $_*$_ foreach (@$test);

   return ( $td < $sd );
}

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      Thus, in my original code block, where I have the grep, you can simply do: 
      my @closer_ns = grep { closer_to_origin( \@point, $_ ) } @n;

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      to get the closer neighbors. That routine basically calculates the distance from the point in question to the origin via the general distance formula, though without the final, expensive, square root as it's not necessary for magnitude comparison. This also blocks the original point from showing up (strictly closer, not same-or-closer distance) I'm sure that you can also modify tye's closure routine to include this check such that farther points don't pop up from each iteration loop.

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