Homework 6: Find variables
Following the lab exercises, you may think that metaprogramming is a fun little exercise. Let's challenge this notion in this homework, where YOU are being trusted with catching all the edge cases in an AST.
How to submit?
Put the code of the compulsory task inside hw.jl. Zip only this file (not its parent folder) and upload it to BRUTE. Your file should not use any 3rd party dependency.
Your task is to find all single letter variables in an expression, i.e. for example when given expression
x + 2*y*z - c*xreturn an array of unique alphabetically sorted symbols representing variables in an expression.
[:c, :x, :y, :z]Implement this in a function called find_variables. Note that there may be some edge cases that you may have to handle in a special way, such as
- variable assignments
r = x*xshould return the variable on the left as well (rin this case) - ignoring symbols representing single letter function calls such as
f(x)
Solution:
Nothing to see here.
Voluntary exercise
Create a function that replaces each of +, -, * and / with the respective checked operation, which checks for overflow. E.g. + should be replaced by Base.checked_add.
Solution:
Not yet published.