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-- This N-Queens program is based on a small variation of the 8-queens
-- program from Bird and Wadler's book.
--
-- Be warned: printing out the complete list of solutions (all 92 of them)
-- by evaluating "q 8" takes well over 1 million reductions and uses nearly
-- 2.5 million cells... it may take some time to execute on slower systems! :-)
queens number_of_queens = qu number_of_queens where
qu 0 = [[]]
qu (m+1) = [ p++[n] | p<-qu m, n<-[1..number_of_queens], safe p n ]
safe p n = all not [ check (i,j) (m,n) | (i,j) <- zip [1..] p ]
where m = 1 + length p
check (i,j) (m,n) = j==n || (i+j==m+n) || (i-j==m-n)
-- Use q 5 to see the list of solutions for 5 queens.
-- Use q 8 to see the list of solutions for 8 queens ....
q n = layn (map show (queens n))