Re: Factor

A few days ago, I noticed this example from the Racket website, for reporting “each unique line from stdin”:

;; Report each unique line from stdin
(let ([saw (make-hash)])
  (for ([line (in-lines)])
    (unless (hash-ref saw line #f)
      (displayln line))
    (hash-set! saw line #t)))

We can implement the same functionality in Factor, reading each unique line from an input stream:

: unique-lines ( -- )
    lines members [ print ] each ;

The lines word acts on the “current input stream”, so we can use a file reader as an input stream to print out all unique lines in a file:

: unique-file ( path -- )
    utf8 [ unique-lines ] with-file-reader ;

If we wanted to make this print and flush each unique line of input as it is read, we could have used the each-line word to implement it in a line-by-line fashion:

: unique-lines ( -- )
    HS{ } clone '[
        dup _ ?adjoin [
            print flush
        ] [ drop ] if
    ] each-line ;