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Some experiments with lazy arrays in JavaScript inspired by Clojure's lazy-seq
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| function LazyValue(fn) { | |
| this.valueOf = fn; | |
| } | |
| function lazyArray(fn) { | |
| return [new LazyValue(fn)]; | |
| } | |
| function cons(item, arr) { | |
| return [item].concat(arr); | |
| } | |
| function first(arr) { | |
| var v = arr[0].valueOf(); | |
| return v[1] instanceof LazyValue ? v[0] : v; | |
| } | |
| function rest(arr) { | |
| return arr[1].valueOf(); | |
| } | |
| // Should also be lazy really. | |
| function take(n, arr) { | |
| return n - 1 > 0 ? cons(first(arr), take(n - 1, rest(arr))) : arr.slice(0, -1); | |
| } | |
| function positiveNumbers(n) { | |
| return cons(n, lazyArray(function () { | |
| return positiveNumbers(n + 1); | |
| })); | |
| } | |
| first(rest(rest(positiveNumbers(10)))); // 12 | |
| take(5, positiveNumbers(1)); // [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] |
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