Hi guys,

been trying to figure out for a while now how I can solve this problem. 
I've implemented my own type of array, it's called NdArray. The way it 
works is as follow:
It has a buffer (an array of something), a shape (list of dimensions), 
strides (list of steps) and an offset. Imagine we have a NdArray with a 
buffer of 9 numbers [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], shape [3, 3] (square 
matrix) and this leads to a list of strides [3, 1]. This last one means, 
there is a jump of 3 numbers for each of the first dimension. Better 
visualised:

buffer => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
view of this buffer with shape [3, 3] => 
[ 1, 2, 3
, 4, 5, 6
, 7, 8, 9
]

Now, imagine I change the strides to be [2, 2], that means, I'm jumping one 
per dimension (in this square matrix I'm jumping one column and one row). 
The result is:
[ 1, 3
, 7, 9
]

I'm jumping one number in the last dimension, and an entire row in the 
first dimension. Shape is now [2, 2].

So I have all this implemented already here 
https://github.com/jscriptcoder/elm-ndarray. This is port of ndarray 
by Mikola Lysenko, https://github.com/scijs/ndarray. But I got stuck how to 
walk this array. I'm trying to implement map, filter and fold (foldl), and 
to do so I must be able to walk this array, which is not that trivial (or 
at least not for me). I have implemented a function "index" which takes a 
location in the form of list of Int and calculates the index based on 
shape, strides and offset. So I'm trying to find a way to implement this 
functionality:
For example, for a [3, 3] shape then
nextLocation [0, 0] => Just [0, 1]
nextLocation [0, 1] => Just [0, 2]
nextLocation [0, 2] => Just [1, 0]
nextLocation [1, 0] => Just [1, 1]
nextLocation [1, 1] => Just [1, 2]
...
 nextLocation [2, 2] => Nothing

By far not an expert in functional programming, maybe someone can help me 
to figur this one out?

Thanks a lot.

Fran

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