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- | **UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!** | + | **IN PROGRESS: FIRST DRAFT!!** |
+ | - TODO: Adding Table splicing, quasi-quoting? | ||
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====== Functional and Imperative Programming ====== | ====== Functional and Imperative Programming ====== | ||
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- | Variables and functions defined locally to functions are only visible in the scope of the function where there were defined. | + | This example also illustrates how a function can be made private by means of lexical scope. |
=== Variable-Length Argument Functions === | === Variable-Length Argument Functions === | ||
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===== Closures ===== | ===== Closures ===== | ||
- | The function name can also be used just to refer the function | + | As you have probably noticed in the previous examples, |
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+ | The function name can be thus used to refer the function | ||
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+ | >def makeCell(val){ | ||
+ | def getter() { val} ; | ||
+ | def setter(v) {val := v}; | ||
+ | [getter, setter] | ||
+ | } | ||
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+ | >def [get, set] := makeCell(42); | ||
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+ | This example also illustrates how a function can make public some of its local fields or functions by returning them as its return value. The get and set could be then passed as arguments to other functions such as // | ||
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===== Blocks ===== | ===== Blocks ===== | ||
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In AmbientTalk, | In AmbientTalk, | ||
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If the block do not require any parameter, the |< | If the block do not require any parameter, the |< | ||
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+ | This example also illustrates that blocks are also used to iterate over enumerations, | ||
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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: | 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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