From 8d0580ffc3da83136fc7baaa78c875f41c257542 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: anon <anon@anon.anon>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:39:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added 'Python/combinator.py'

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 Python/combinator.py | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 Python/combinator.py

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+# @BAKE python3 $@
+
+# Imagine all this, but as generated(!) C code
+
+# These are all our options, we would like to precompute them for reasons such as
+#  1) imagine this is SQL; (while it should be hard to break) debugging dynamic SQL is horrid
+#  2) C strings are painful
+#  3) some bullshit reason appealing to speed autism or something
+#  4) some bullshit on compile time guarantees
+options = [
+	["a", "b", "c"],
+	["A", "B"],
+	["1", "2", "3", "4"],
+]
+
+# This leaves us with a single array of all combinations
+def combinator(options):
+	r = []
+	indexes = [0] * len(options)
+	max_add_index = len(options) - 1
+	add_index = max_add_index
+	while True:
+		ri = ""
+		for i in range(len(options)):
+			ri += options[i][indexes[i]]
+		r.append(ri)
+
+		while True:
+			if indexes[add_index] != len(options[add_index])-1:
+				indexes[add_index] += 1
+				add_index = max_add_index
+				break
+			else:
+				if add_index == 0: return r
+				indexes[add_index] = 0
+				add_index -= 1
+
+# This would use enums and the shape would be compile time
+def combination_lookup(combinations, shape, element):
+	index = 0
+	for i in range(len(element)):
+		c = 1
+		c *= element[i]
+		for h in range(i+1, len(shape)):
+			c *= shape[h]
+		index += c
+	return combinations[index]
+
+combinations = combinator(options)
+print(combinations)
+print(combination_lookup(combinations, [3, 2, 4], [1, 0, 2])) # expected outout: "bA3"
+print(combination_lookup(combinations, [3, 2, 4], [2, 1, 3])) # expected outout: "cB4"
+
+# The thing is, the more i think about it the more retarded it seems,
+#  but it does have a sense of "cleaness".
+# However, if go with dynamic generation anyways, bison would be reasonably clean too.