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- | **UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!** | + | **IN PROGRESS!!** |
+ | - TODO: Talk about methods instead of functions? Check iat chapter. | ||
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====== Functional and Imperative Programming ====== | ====== Functional and Imperative Programming ====== | ||
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- | This example also illustrates how functions are called. Calls to functions without parameters must also include the parenthesis. | + | This example also illustrates how functions are called. Calls to functions without parameters must also include the parenthesis |
+ | < | ||
+ | >def f(){nil} | ||
+ | >>< | ||
+ | >f() | ||
+ | >> | ||
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+ | The return value of a function is the result of the last statement executed. Functions must always return a value - i.e. they cannot be abstract. The example also illustrates how to create dumb function that doesn' | ||
Functions have access to the enclosing environment of its definition as shown in the following example. | Functions have access to the enclosing environment of its definition as shown in the following example. | ||
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+ | ===== Closures ===== | ||
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+ | As you have probably noticed in the previous examples, | ||
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+ | The function name can be thus used to refer the function (without calling it). This will also return a closure to that function. | ||
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===== Blocks ===== | ===== Blocks ===== | ||
- | The function name can also be used just to refer the function but without calling it. TODO! | + | In AmbientTalk, |
+ | < | ||
+ | { |< | ||
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+ | If the block do not require any parameter, the |< | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | >{| a, b| a+ b} (3,2) | ||
+ | >>5 | ||
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+ | Note that the argument list passed to the block can define | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | >{|a, b, @rest| | ||
+ | def total := a + b; | ||
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+ | >>6 | ||
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- | Unlike Pico, AmbientTalk doesn' | + | This example also illustrates |
+ | AmbientTalk doesn’t support function assigment. However, one can assign blocks to variables. In order to call the block the name of the variable must be used. If the block defined parameters, these are required to the call as argument list. What follows is an example of such manipulation: | ||
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- | >>0 | + | >>< |
- | >sum := sum + 1 | + | >square(1,2) |
- | >>1 | + | |
- | > | + | |
- | >>nil | + | |
- | >sum(1,2) | + | |
>>3 | >>3 | ||
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