/*********************************************************************** * Chapel implementation of "99 bottles of beer" * * by Brad Chamberlain and Steve Deitz * 07/13/2006 in Knoxville airport while waiting for flight home from * HPLS workshop * compiles and runs with chpl compiler version 0.3.3211 * for more information, contact: chapel_info@cray.com * * * Notes: * o as in all good parallel computations, boundary conditions * constitute the vast bulk of complexity in this code (invite Brad to * tell you about his zany boundary condition simplification scheme) * o uses type inference for variables, arguments * o relies on integer->string coercions * o uses named argument passing (for documentation purposes only) ***********************************************************************/ // allow executable command-line specification of number of bottles // (e.g., ./a.out -snumBottles=999999) config const numBottles = 99; const numVerses = numBottles+1; // a domain to describe the space of lyrics var LyricsSpace: domain(1) = [1..numVerses]; // array of lyrics var Lyrics: [LyricsSpace] string; // parallel computation of lyrics array [verse in LyricsSpace] Lyrics(verse) = computeLyric(verse); // as in any good parallel language, I/O to stdout is serialized. // (Note that I/O to a file could be parallelized using a parallel // prefix computation on the verse strings' lengths with file seeking) writeln(Lyrics); // HELPER FUNCTIONS: fun computeLyric(verseNum) { var bottleNum = numBottles - (verseNum - 1); var nextBottle = (bottleNum + numVerses - 1)%numVerses; return "\n" // disguise space used to separate elements in array I/O + describeBottles(bottleNum, startOfVerse=true) + " on the wall, " + describeBottles(bottleNum) + ".\n" + computeAction(bottleNum) + describeBottles(nextBottle) + " on the wall.\n"; } fun describeBottles(bottleNum, startOfVerse:bool = false) { // NOTE: bool should not be necessary here (^^^^); working around bug var bottleDescription = if (bottleNum) then bottleNum:string else (if startOfVerse then "N" else "n") + "o more"; return bottleDescription + " bottle" + (if (bottleNum == 1) then "" else "s") + " of beer"; } fun computeAction(bottleNum) { return if (bottleNum == 0) then "Go to the store and buy some more, " else "Take one down and pass it around, "; }