I like your script, Bruce. And you are quite correct--my code seems to
work just fine without ".words":
~$ raku -e 'say @*ARGS.grep(*.Rat).sum;'
Best, Bill.
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 1:42 PM Bruce Gray <robertbrucegr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bill,
>
> You were correct that `!=== 0` is redundant in the original code, because a
> numeric will be checked for zero-versus-not-zero in Boolean context, and
> because `==` and `===` should mean the same thing when comparing a bare
> numeric value.
>
> In your latest version, I want to point out that `.words` should be
> redundant, since the shell will break up the command-line arguments on
> whitespace, before ever handing them to Raku.
> Your code gives the same answer without `.words`.
>
> Raku supports the procedural and functional (and OO, too!) paradigms very
> well.
> Here is a different version, for readers who have not yet embraced the
> map/grep mindset we have been showing off.
>
> my @nums;
> for @*ARGS -> $arg {
> push @nums, $arg if $arg.Rat;
> }
> say @nums.sum;
>
>
> --
> Hope this helps,
> Bruce Gray (Util of PerlMonks)
>
>
> > On Aug 31, 2020, at 3:02 PM, William Michels <w...@caa.columbia.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Very nice, Bruce and Daniel!
> >
> > I continued to hack on Rahakrishnan's code, then realized I could try
> > using Bruce's grep() call as a filter:
> >
> > ~$ raku -e '@*ARGS.words.grep(*.Rat).sum.say;' 100 200 300 apples
> > 400oranges 2kilos 18.7876 500 grams14 10stars10 sun100moon 77
> > 1195.7876
> >
> > HTH, Bill.
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 12:23 PM <dan...@codesections.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I like Bruce's Regex-based approach.
> >>
> >> Here's how I'd probably approach the problem:
> >>
> >> raku -e 'say [+] @*ARGS.grep(+*)' 0 100 200 300 apples 400oranges 2kilos
> >> 18.7876 500 grams14 10stars10 sun100moon 77
> >>
> >> August 31, 2020 2:28 PM, "Bruce Gray" <robertbrucegr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> my $is_a_number = / ^ \d+ [ '.' \d* ]? $ /;
> >>>
> >>> my $sum = @*ARGS.grep($is_a_number).sum;
> >>>
> >>> say $sum;
> >>>
> >>> —
> >>> Hope this helps,
> >>> Bruce Gray (Util of PerlMonks)
> >>>
> >>>> On Aug 31, 2020, at 12:22 PM, William Michels via perl6-users
> >>>> <perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I think it looks very good, Radhakrishnan! Presumably you are happy
> >>>> with the sum 1195.7876?
> >>>>
> >>>> ~$ raku -e 'for @*ARGS {.say if ($_.Int // 0) };' 0 100 200 300 apples
> >>>> 400oranges 2kilos 18.7876 500 grams14 10stars10 sun100moon 77
> >>>> 100
> >>>> 200
> >>>> 300
> >>>> 18.7876
> >>>> 500
> >>>> 77
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm still mulling over whether or not the "!=== 0" is essential. I
> >>>> have yet to mess-up the command line arguments sufficiently to require
> >>>> it, and throwing a zero onto the command line seems to be handled
> >>>> gracefully.
> >>>>
> >>>> Anyone else want to chime in?
> >>>>
> >>>> Best, Bill.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 8:49 AM Radhakrishnan Venkataraman
> >>>> <weor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Please see the following script that checks for type and sums up only
> >>>>> the numbers passed as
> >>>>> arguments to the script in the command line. I would be grateful if any
> >>>>> improvement or furtherance
> >>>>> to this script is offered. Thank you.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> #
> >>>>> # sums the numbers given in command line arguments and prints
> >>>>> #
> >>>>> my $sum = 0;
> >>>>> for @*ARGS
> >>>>> {
> >>>>> $sum += $_.Rat if $_.Int // 0 !=== 0;
> >>>>> }
> >>>>> say $sum;
> >>>>>
> >>>>> #
> >>>>> # command line execution
> >>>>> # perl6 cla.p6 100 200 300 apples 400oranges 2kilos 18.7876 500 grams14
> >>>>> 10stars10 sun100moon 77
> >>>>> #
>
