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Exercise in writing compressed JavaScript using b-like techniques
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// Inspired by http://kparc.com/b/c.h | |
// See also https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/51402407#51402407 | |
const x="x",y="y" | |
// Function makers | |
function fn() {return new Function(...arguments)} | |
function f0(b) {return fn(b)} | |
function f1(b) {return fn(x,b)} | |
function f2(b) {return fn(x,y,b)} | |
function run(b) {f0(b)()} | |
// Strings | |
const | |
R = f1("return 'return '+x"), | |
P = f1(R("'console.log(\"'+x+'\")'")), | |
DO = f2(R("'for(var i=0,_l='+x+';i<_l;i++){'+y+'}'")), | |
LEN = f1(R("x+'.length'")), | |
OVER = f2("var a=0;"+DO(LEN(y),"a=x(a,y[i])")+R("a")), // replace with 'reduce'? | |
SCAN = f2("var a=0,r=[];"+DO(LEN(y),"r.push(a=x(a,y[i]))")+R("r")), | |
ADD = f2(R("x+y")), | |
MAX = f2(R("Math.max(x,y)")) // pointer to max not stored... | |
// Yes, map/reduce array methods would do a lot of this... | |
run(DO(3,P("hello"))) // 3x 'hello' | |
run(P(f1(R("x+1"))(1))) // 2 | |
run(P(OVER(ADD,[1,2,3]))) // 6 | |
run(P(SCAN(ADD,[1,2,3]))) // [1,3,6] | |
run(P(OVER(MAX,[2,3,1]))) // 3 |
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