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March 28, 2014 08:03
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Trying to apply ES6 generators to create monad comprehensions. Unfortunately it looks like this will not work with monads that contain multiple values, such as arrays.
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/* | |
* The implementation | |
*/ | |
function du(comprehension) { | |
return function(/* args */) { | |
var gen = comprehension.apply(null, arguments) | |
return next(); | |
function next(v) { | |
var res = gen.next(v) | |
return (!res.done && res.value) ? flatMap(res.value, tryNext) : res.value | |
} | |
function tryNext(v) { | |
try { | |
return next(v) | |
} | |
catch (err) { | |
return gen.throw(err) | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
function flatMap(m, f) { | |
if (typeof m.then === 'function') { | |
return m.then(f) | |
} | |
else if (typeof m.map === 'function' && typeof m.length === 'number') { | |
return flatten(m.map(f)) | |
} | |
else { | |
throw new TypeError("No implementation for this argument!") | |
} | |
} | |
function flatten(xs) { | |
if (!xs || !xs.reduce) { | |
return xs | |
} | |
return xs.reduce(function(flat, x) { | |
return flat.concat(x) | |
}, []) | |
} | |
/* | |
* An array monad in action | |
*/ | |
var guests = [ | |
{ name: "Sophia", vegetarian: true, peanutAllergy: false }, | |
{ name: "Madison", vegetarion: false, peanutAllergy: false }, | |
{ name: "Liam", vegetarion: true, peanutAllergy: true }, | |
{ name: "Noah", vegetarian: true, peanutAllergy: false }, | |
{ name: "Elizabeth", vegetarian: false, peanutAllergy: true } | |
] | |
var entrees = [ | |
{ name: "Meatballs", vegetarian: false, peanut: false }, | |
{ name: "Pad Thai", vegetarion: true, peanut: true }, | |
{ name: "BLT", vegetarion: false, peanut: false }, | |
{ name: "Caesar Salad", vegetarian: true, peanut: false }, | |
{ name: "Game Hen", vegetarian: false, peanut: true } | |
] | |
var acceptablePairings = du(function*() { | |
var guest = yield guests | |
var entree = yield entrees | |
if (guest.peanutAllergy && entree.peanut) { | |
return [] | |
} | |
else if (guest.vegetarian && !entree.vegetarian) { | |
return [] | |
} | |
else { | |
return [[guest.name, entree.name]] | |
} | |
})(); | |
// Upon calling `gen.next()` with the second entree, an error is reported: | |
// | |
// > Error: Generator has already finished |
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