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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
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Preface

Flow control with template metaprogramming


Code flow is an important aspect in coding a program. In many programming languages, they have an if-else, switch, and do-while statement to arrange the flow of the code. Now, let's refactor the usual flow of code to become a template-based flow. We will start by using the if-else statement, followed by the switch statement, and finally ending with the do-while statement, all in templates.

Deciding the next process by the current condition

Now it's time to use the template as we discussed previously. Let's suppose we have two functions that we have to choose by a certain condition. What we usually do is use the if-else statement as follows:

    /* condition.cpp */
    #include <iostream>

    using namespace std;

    // Function that will run
    // if the condition is TRUE
    void TrueStatement()
    {
      cout << "True Statement is run." << endl;
    }

    // Function that will run
    // if the condition is FALSE
    void...