I fixed the bug, but I kept the parameter "i" instead of "_" since that (1)
keeps it more parallel to the python and java versions which also use
functions with a named variable and (2) doesn't require readers to know
this particular use of the "_" syntax in Scala.
Thanks for catching this Glenn.
Andy
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Mark Hamstra <m...@clearstorydata.com>wrote:
> Sorry, looks like an extra line got inserted in there. One more try:
>
> val count = spark.parallelize(1 to NUM_SAMPLES).map { _ =>
> val x = Math.random()
> val y = Math.random()
> if (x*x + y*y < 1) 1 else 0
> }.reduce(_ + _)
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Mark Hamstra <m...@clearstorydata.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Actually, the better way to write the multi-line closure would be:
> >
> > val count = spark.parallelize(1 to NUM_SAMPLES).map { _ =>
> >
> > val x = Math.random()
> > val y = Math.random()
> > if (x*x + y*y < 1) 1 else 0
> > }.reduce(_ + _)
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:41 AM, GlennStrycker <glenn.stryc...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On the webpage http://spark.apache.org/examples.html, there is an
> example
> >> written as
> >>
> >> val count = spark.parallelize(1 to NUM_SAMPLES).map(i =>
> >> val x = Math.random()
> >> val y = Math.random()
> >> if (x*x + y*y < 1) 1 else 0
> >> ).reduce(_ + _)
> >> println("Pi is roughly " + 4.0 * count / NUM_SAMPLES)
> >>
> >> This does not execute in Spark, which gives me an error:
> >> <console>:2: error: illegal start of simple expression
> >> val x = Math.random()
> >> ^
> >>
> >> If I rewrite the query slightly, adding in {}, it works:
> >>
> >> val count = spark.parallelize(1 to 10000).map(i =>
> >> {
> >> val x = Math.random()
> >> val y = Math.random()
> >> if (x*x + y*y < 1) 1 else 0
> >> }
> >> ).reduce(_ + _)
> >> println("Pi is roughly " + 4.0 * count / 10000.0)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >
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