Hi,

        Some time back Lau Jensen blogged something like this.  Its starts here 

http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.clj/2009/10/brians-functional-brain.html

but there are at least two follow ups.  It might spark inspiration if you've 
not yet read it.

 Edmund


On 22 Jul 2010, at 13:37, Rising_Phorce wrote:

> I'm coming from an imperative background and trying to stay away from
> "for loops" to do the task at hand.  Given a size, I want to create a
> vector of vectors to represent a game board similar to Rich's ants or
> Conway's Game of Life (no wrapping necessary for me).  A couple of
> questions.  I will need to traverse the vectors sequentially but at
> each step there will be lots of sequential back and forward tracking.
> Arrays would be the natural imperative choice, but the docs recommend
> this only for inter-op.  So are vectors the best choice?
> 
> Secondly, I figured out how to create a row (a vector of length
> 'size'):  (defn make-row [size] (vec (take size (repeat nil))))
> 
> but I can't figure out how to conj 'size' calls to make-row onto
> another empty vector.
> 
> I've tried 'map', but then I need a data structure of length 'size' to
> iterate
> 
> I've looked at 'doTimes', but haven't been successful in figured out
> how to make it work for this.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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