Book Image

Functional Kotlin

Book Image

Functional Kotlin

Overview of this book

Functional programming makes your application faster, improves performance, and increases your productivity. Kotlin supports many of the popular and advanced functional features of functional languages. This book will cover the A-Z of functional programming in Kotlin. This book bridges the language gap for Kotlin developers by showing you how to create and consume functional constructs in Kotlin. We also bridge the domain gap by showing how functional constructs can be applied in business scenarios. We’ll take you through lambdas, pattern matching, immutability, and help you develop a deep understanding of the concepts and practices of functional programming. If you want learn to address problems using Recursion, Koltin has support for it as well. You’ll also learn how to use the funKtionale library to perform currying and lazy programming and more. Finally, you’ll learn functional design patterns and techniques that will make you a better programmer.By the end of the book, you will be more confident in your functional programming skills and will be able to apply them while programming in Kotlin.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Custom delegation


So far in this chapter, we have seen the standard delegations available with Kotlin. However, Kotlin does allow us to write our own custom delegates, to suit our custom needs.

For example, in the program, where we checked for the Even with Delegates.vetoable, we could only discard the value assignment, but there's no way to automatically assign the next even number to the variable.

In the following program, we used makeEven, a custom delegate which would automatically assign the next even number if an odd number is passed to the assignment, otherwise if an even number is passed to the assignment, it would pass that.

Have a look at the following program:

var myEven:Int by makeEven(0) { 
    property, oldValue, newValue, wasEven -> 
    println("${property.name} $oldValue -> $newValue, Even:$wasEven") 
} 
 
fun main(args: Array<String>) { 
    myEven = 6 
    println("myEven:$myEven") 
    myEven = 3 
    println("myEven:$myEven") 
    myEven = 5 
    println("myEven...