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An odd "non-determinism" example from StackOverflow It is clever, but doesn't make much sense as to how it gets its results
author IBBoard <dev@ibboard.co.uk>
date Sun, 14 Jul 2019 13:44:13 +0100
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-module(day2).
-export([find_tuple/2]).
-export([calc_prices/1]).
-export([score_tictactoe/1]).
-export([has_won/2]).

% Do a more Erlang-esque "crash if not matched" behaviour rather than an atom of "undefined" or "null"
find_tuple([{Key, Value}|_], Key) -> Value;
find_tuple([{_,_}|Tail], Key) -> find_tuple(Tail, Key).

calc_prices(ProductList) -> [{Item, Quantity * Price} || {Item, Quantity, Price} <- ProductList].

has_won(Board, P) ->
    case Board of
        { P, P, P,
          _, _, _,
          _, _, _ } -> true;

        { _, _, _,
          P, P, P,
          _, _, _ } -> true;

        { _, _, _,
          _, _, _,
          P, P, P } -> true;

        { P, _, _,
          P, _, _,
          P, _, _ } -> true;

        { _, P, _,
          _, P, _,
          _, P, _ } -> true;

        { _, _, P,
          _, _, P,
          _, _, P } -> true;

        { P, _, _,
          _, P, _,
          _, _, P } -> true;

        { _, _, P,
          _, P, _,
          P, _, _ } -> true;
          
        _ -> false
    end.

score_tictactoe(Board) -> 
    State = { has_won(Board, x), has_won(Board, o), lists:any(fun(Val) -> Val == b end, tuple_to_list(Board)) }, 
    case State of
        { true, false, _ } -> x;
        { false, true, _ } -> o;
        { _, _, true } -> no_winner;
        { false, false, false } -> cat
        % And { true, true, false } exceptions as it is invalid
    end.