• via Digitalmars-d-bugs (43/43) Jan 23 2015 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14034

via Digitalmars-d-bugs <digitalmars-d-bugs puremagic.com> writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14034

          Issue ID: 14034
           Summary: std.algorithm.mean
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P1
         Component: Phobos
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: bearophile_hugs eml.cc

I suggest to add a "std.algorithm.mean" or "std.algorithm.average" function
that scans its input range only once, because it's commonly useful, and because
naive user-level computations of the average of a lazy range scan it two times:

void main() {
    import std.stdio, std.range, std.algorithm;
    auto items = iota(100, 250);
    immutable len = items.walkLength;
    immutable mean1 = items.sum / double(len);
    mean1.writeln;
}


To scan it only once you have to write code that is imperative-style, or not so
easy if functional-style:


void main() {
    import std.stdio, std.range, std.algorithm, std.typecons;
    auto items = iota(100, 250);
    immutable pair = reduce!((a, b) => tuple(a[0] + 1, a[1] + b))
                            (tuple(0u, 0.0), items);
    writeln(pair[1] / double(pair[0]));
}


A possible usage example of std.algorithm.mean (it defaults to resulting a
double):

void main() {
    import std.stdio, std.range, std.algorithm;
    auto items = iota(100, 250);
    writeln(items.mean!real);
}



https://msdn.microsoft.com/it-it/library/ee340240.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399409%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

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