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class BaseFunction {
  static #allowInstantiation = false;

  constructor(...args) {
    if (!BaseFunction.#allowInstantiation) {
      throw new Error(
        "Why are you trying to use 'new'? Classes are so 2015! Use our fancy 'run' method instead!"
      );
    }
    for (const [name, validator] of this.parameters()) {
      this[name] = validator(args.shift());
    }
  }

  parameters() {
    return [];
  }

  body() {
    return undefined;
  }

  static run(...args) {
    BaseFunction.#allowInstantiation = true;
    const instance = new this(...args);
    BaseFunction.#allowInstantiation = false;
    return instance.body();
  }
}

class Add extends BaseFunction {
  parameters() {
    return [
      ["a", (x) => Number(x)],
      ["b", (x) => Number(x)],
    ];
  }

  body() {
    return this.a + this.b;
  }
}

console.log(Add.run(5, 3)); // 8



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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

JS disgusts me

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

A true FP programmer would make it apply instead of run...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

Ahem, map...

And, of course, everything is a lazy list even if the functions can't handle more than one element in each list.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

Dont look at C++ with std:: function

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

I'm pretty sure this post is designed to kill the soul. I am made slightly worse for witnessing this abortion of an implementation and I will never be quite the same again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I think that's called a functor.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 15 hours ago

OP, what's your address? I have a "present" for you

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Hence, Clojure. It's not just functions that implement IFn... as the string of "cannot cast to clojure.lang.IFn" errors that I get because I couldn't be bothered to validate my data's shape is eager to inform me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Yep, some code examples from the official documentation. This:

printPersons(
    roster,
    (Person p) -> p.getGender() == Person.Sex.MALE
        && p.getAge() >= 18
        && p.getAge() <= 25
);

...is syntactic sugar for this:

interface CheckPerson {
    boolean test(Person p);
}

printPersons(
    roster,
    new CheckPerson() {
        public boolean test(Person p) {
            return p.getGender() == Person.Sex.MALE
                && p.getAge() >= 18
                && p.getAge() <= 25;
        }
    }
);

...which is syntactic sugar for this:

interface CheckPerson {
    boolean test(Person p);
}

class CheckPersonEligibleForSelectiveService implements CheckPerson {
    public boolean test(Person p) {
        return p.gender == Person.Sex.MALE &&
            p.getAge() >= 18 &&
            p.getAge() <= 25;
    }
}

printPersons(roster, new CheckPersonEligibleForSelectiveService());

The printPersons function looks like this:

public static void printPersons(List<Person> roster, CheckPerson tester) {
    for (Person p : roster) {
        if (tester.test(p)) {
            p.printPerson();
        }
    }
}

Basically, if you accept a parameter that implements an interface with only one method (CheckPerson), then your caller can provide you an object like that by using the lambda syntax from the first example.

They had to retrofit lambdas into the language, and they sure chose the one hammer that the language has.

Source: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/lambdaexpressions.html

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

That's not quite right. In bytecode, lambdas are significantly more efficient than anonymous class instances. So while the lambda implementation is semantically equivalent, characterizing it like you have is reductive and a bit misleading.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Golang also does this, but it's not classes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 29 minutes ago

Golang uses modules, not classes. Each of which may have its own main file.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

Amazing, lol