func consolidate() { [] }
func consolidate(this, *those) {
gather {
consolidate(those...).each { |that|
if (this & that) { this |= that }
else { take that }
}
take this
}
}
enum |A="A", B, C, D, _E, F, G, H, I, _J, K|
func format(ss) {
ss.map{ '(' + .join(' ') + ')' }.join(' ')
}
[
[[A,B], [C,D]],
[[A,B], [B,D]],
[[A,B], [C,D], [D,B]],
[[H,I,K], [A,B], [C,D], [D,B], [F,G,H]]
].each { |ss|
say (format(ss), "\n\t==> ", format(consolidate(ss...)))
}
Output:
(A B) (C D)
==> (C D) (A B)
(A B) (B D)
==> (A B D)
(A B) (C D) (D B)
==> (A B C D)
(H I K) (A B) (C D) (D B) (F G H)
==> (A B C D) (H I K F G)