一位面试官最近问了我这样一个问题:给定三个布尔变量a、b和c,如果三个变量中至少有两个为真,则返回true。

我的解决方案如下:

boolean atLeastTwo(boolean a, boolean b, boolean c) {
    if ((a && b) || (b && c) || (a && c)) {
        return true;
    }
    else{
        return false;
    }
}

他说这还可以进一步改进,但如何改进呢?


当前回答

One thing I haven't seen others point out is that a standard thing to do in the "please write me some code" section of the job interview is to say "Could you improve that?" or "Are you completely happy with that" or "is that as optimized as possible?" when you say you are done. It's possible you heard "how would you improve that" as "this might be improved; how?". In this case changing the if(x) return true; else return false; idiom to just return x is an improvement - but be aware that there are times they just want to see how you react to the question. I have heard that some interviewers will insist there is a flaw in perfect code just to see how you cope with it.

其他回答

只是为了使用异或来回答一个相对简单的问题……

return a ^ b ? c : a

三元运算符让人觉得很无聊,但它们也会令人困惑(使代码更难维护,从而增加了注入错误的可能性)。Jeff Attwood说得很好:

这是一个权衡取舍的完美例子 毫无意义的一次 写的时候节省了几十个 阅读时间理解惩罚——它 让我思考。

为了避免三元操作符,我创建了以下函数:

function atLeastTwoTrue($a, $b, $c) {
        $count = 0;

        if ($a) { $count++; }
        if ($b) { $count++; }
        if ($c) { $count++; }

        if ($count >= 2) {
                return true;
        } else {
                return false;
        }
}

这个和其他解一样酷吗?不。这样更容易理解吗?是的。这是否会使代码更具可维护性、bug更少?是的。

下面是使用map/reduce的另一个实现。在分布式环境中,这可以很好地扩展到数十亿布尔值©。使用MongoDB:

创建数据库的布尔值:

db.values.insert({value: true});
db.values.insert({value: false});
db.values.insert({value: true});

创建map, reduce函数:

编辑:我喜欢CurtainDog的回答有映射/减少适用于泛型列表,所以这里有一个地图函数,它接受一个回调,决定一个值是否应该被计数。

var mapper = function(shouldInclude) {
    return function() {
        emit(null, shouldInclude(this) ? 1 : 0);
    };
}

var reducer = function(key, values) {
    var sum = 0;
    for(var i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
        sum += values[i];
    }
    return sum;
}

运行map / reduce:

var result = db.values.mapReduce(mapper(isTrue), reducer).result;

containsMinimum(2, result); // true
containsMinimum(1, result); // false


function isTrue(object) {
    return object.value == true;
}

function containsMinimum(count, resultDoc) {
    var record = db[resultDoc].find().next();
    return record.value >= count;
}
int count=0;

boolean atLeastTwo(boolean a, boolean b, boolean c) {
    if (a)
        count++;
    if (b)
        count++;
    if (c)
        count++;

    if (count>1)
        return true;
    else
        return false;
}

可读性应该是目标。阅读代码的人必须立即理解您的意图。这就是我的解。

int howManyBooleansAreTrue =
      (a ? 1 : 0)
    + (b ? 1 : 0)
    + (c ? 1 : 0);

return howManyBooleansAreTrue >= 2;