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Learning C++ Functional Programming

By : Wisnu Anggoro
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Book Image

Learning C++ Functional Programming

5 (1)
By: Wisnu Anggoro

Overview of this book

Functional programming allows developers to divide programs into smaller, reusable components that ease the creation, testing, and maintenance of software as a whole. Combined with the power of C++, you can develop robust and scalable applications that fulfill modern day software requirements. This book will help you discover all the C++ 17 features that can be applied to build software in a functional way. The book is divided into three modules—the first introduces the fundamentals of functional programming and how it is supported by modern C++. The second module explains how to efficiently implement C++ features such as pure functions and immutable states to build robust applications. The last module describes how to achieve concurrency and apply design patterns to enhance your application’s performance. Here, you will also learn to optimize code using metaprogramming in a functional way. By the end of the book, you will be familiar with the functional approach of programming and will be able to use these techniques on a daily basis.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


We have discussed that there are some techniques to manipulate a function. We will gain many advantages from it. Since we can implement the first-class function in the C++ language, we can pass a function as another function's parameter. We can treat a function as a data object so we can assign it to a variable and store it in the container. Also, we can compose a new function from the existing one. Moreover, by using map, filter, and fold, we can implement the higher-order function in every function we create.

Another technique we have to implement in gaining a better functional code is a pure function to avoid a side effect. We can refactor all the functions we have so it won't talk to outside variables or states and won't change and retrieve the value from the outside state. Also, to reduce the multiple arguments function so we can evaluate its sequence, we can implement the currying technique to our function.

In the next chapter, we will discuss another technique to avoid side...