Oops, not as trivial as I thought ahah. Forget previous answer. It may 
require just some little adjustment though, I will think about it.

On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 3:49:23 PM UTC+8, Matthieu Pizenberg wrote:
>
> Regarding your question, walking the array is not complicated I think. You 
> can just walk the underlying buffer, and use a function like below if I'm 
> not mistaking.
>
> location : Int -> Int -> Strides -> Shape -> Maybe Location
> location bufferIndex bufferOffset (stride1, stride2) (height, width) =
>     let
>         unOffset =
>             bufferIndex - bufferOffset
>         
>         line =
>             unOffset // stride1
>             
>         column =
>             unOffset % stride1
>     in
>     if line < height && column < width then
>         Just (line, column)
>     else
>         Nothing
>
> Generalization would proceed the same, using euclidean division and 
> modulo, dimension after dimension.
>
> On Friday, December 1, 2017 at 11:22:16 PM UTC+8, Francisco Ramos wrote:
>>
>> 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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