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Functional compostion using fake operator overloading
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// Based on a discussion with Michael Haufe: | |
// https://groups.google.com/group/jsmentors/browse_thread/thread/d028fb0041f93a27 | |
// Not really recommended for anything but the fun of knowing it can be done! | |
var omega = function() { | |
var queue = []; | |
var valueOf = Function.prototype.valueOf; | |
Function.prototype.valueOf = function() { | |
queue.push(this); | |
return 1; // not needed now, but could be used later to distinguish operators. | |
}; | |
return function() { | |
Function.prototype.valueOf = valueOf; | |
return function(x) { | |
for (var i = 0, val = x, len = queue.length; i < len; i++) { | |
val = queue[i](val); | |
} | |
return val; | |
} | |
}; | |
}; |
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var add1 = function(x) {return x + 1;}; | |
var mult2 = function(x) {return x * 2;}; | |
var square = function(x) {return x * x;}; | |
var negate = function(x) {return -x;}; | |
var f = omega()(add1 >> mult2 >> square >> negate); | |
var g = omega()(mult2 >> add1 >> negate >> square >> add1); | |
var h = omega()(f >> g >> add1); | |
console.assert(-36 == f(2), "f(2)"); | |
console.assert(-64 == f(3), "f(3)"); | |
console.assert(50 == g(3), "g(3)"); | |
console.assert(963 == h(1), "h(1)"); |
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