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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
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Preface

Preparing an imperative class


We will now develop the functional class so we can consume it to our functional program. Before that, let's prepare a new imperative class named Customer. The class will have an int property named id as a unique customer ID number. It also has four string properties to store the information about our customer--name, address, phoneNumber, and email. The class also has a flag--isActive--to indicate whether or not our customer is active. If the customer has signed a contract with us, they are regarded as an active customer. Another property is registeredCustomers, to save all registered customers we have, regardless of the active customer. We will make the registeredCustomers member become static so we can fill it from outside the class and can keep the list of the Customer class.

Besides these properties, our class will also have four methods to access the list of our properties. They will be the following methods:

  • GetActiveCustomerNames(): This can be used to get...