Say I have a tree defined as per the recommendation in this post, although it\'s a vector in my case, which hopefully shouldn\'t matter (they\'re vectors in Programming Clojure
This might help, I was creating an algorithm to evaluate if a tree is symmetric and used a breadth-first traversal:
(defn node-values [nodes]
(map first nodes))
(defn node-children [nodes]
(mapcat next nodes))
(defn depth-traversal [nodes]
(if (not (empty? nodes))
(cons (node-values nodes) (depth-traversal (node-children nodes)))))
(defn tree-symmetric? [tree]
(every?
(fn [depth] (= depth (reverse depth)))
(depth-traversal (list tree))))
(def tree '(1 (2 (3) (4)) (2 (4) (3))))
(node-values (list tree)) ; (1)
(node-children (list tree)) ; ((2 (3) (4)) (2 (4) (3)))
(depth-traversal (list tree)) ; ((1) (2 2) (3 4 4 3))
(tree-symmetric? tree) ; true