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Accumulate

Welcome to Accumulate on Exercism's Rust Track. If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out HELP.md.

Instructions

Implement the accumulate operation, which, given a collection and an operation to perform on each element of the collection, returns a new collection containing the result of applying that operation to each element of the input collection.

Given the collection of numbers:

  • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

And the operation:

  • square a number (x => x * x)

Your code should be able to produce the collection of squares:

  • 1, 4, 9, 16, 25

Check out the test suite to see the expected function signature.

Restrictions

Keep your hands off that collect/map/fmap/whatchamacallit functionality provided by your standard library! Solve this one yourself using other basic tools instead.

It may help to look at the Fn* traits: Fn, FnMut and FnOnce.

Help with passing a closure into a function may be found in the "closures as input parameters" section of Rust by Example.

The tests for this exercise will cause compile time errors, if your function signature does not fit them, even when they're not run. You may want to comment some tests out and generalize your solution piece by piece.

Source

Created by

  • @sacherjj

Contributed to by

  • @attilahorvath
  • @ccouzens
  • @coriolinus
  • @cwhakes
  • @efx
  • @Emerentius
  • @ErikSchierboom
  • @lutostag
  • @nfiles
  • @petertseng
  • @rofrol
  • @stringparser
  • @xakon
  • @ZapAnton

Based on

Conversation with James Edward Gray II - https://twitter.com/jeg2