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Encoding Haskells `Maybe` or Scala's `Option` type in JavaScript using the new generators (es6)
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function Option(value) { | |
this.value = value; | |
this.some = arguments.length == 1 | |
} | |
Option.none = new Option() | |
Option.some = v => new Option(v) | |
Option.prototype.iterator = function () { | |
if (this.some) yield this.value | |
} | |
var opts = [Option.some(3), Option.none, Option.some(4)] | |
for (let el of opts) | |
for (let v of el) | |
console.log(v) | |
// yields: | |
// 3 | |
// 4 | |
// using the spread operator to unpack the option | |
console.log( [1, 2, ...Option.some(3), ...Option.none, 4] ) | |
// yields: [1, 2, 3, 4] | |
// Example: working with computations, that might fail | |
function rand() { | |
return Math.random() * 20 | |
} | |
function f1(x) { | |
if (x > 10) | |
return Option.some(x) | |
else | |
return Option.none | |
} | |
function f2(x, y) { | |
if (y == 0) | |
return Option.none | |
else | |
return Option.some(x / y); | |
} | |
for (let x of f1(rand())) | |
for (let y of f1(rand())) | |
for (let res of f2(x, y)) | |
console.log( res ) | |
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