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Hands-On Functional Programming with C++

By : Alexandru Bolboaca
Book Image

Hands-On Functional Programming with C++

By: Alexandru Bolboaca

Overview of this book

Functional programming enables you to divide your software into smaller, reusable components that are easy to write, debug, and maintain. Combined with the power of C++, you can develop scalable and functional applications for modern software requirements. This book will help you discover the functional features in C++ 17 and C++ 20 to build enterprise-level applications. Starting with the fundamental building blocks of functional programming and how to use them in C++, you’ll explore functions, currying, and lambdas. As you advance, you’ll learn how to improve cohesion and delve into test-driven development, which will enable you in designing better software. In addition to this, the book covers architectural patterns such as event sourcing to help you get to grips with the importance of immutability for data storage. You’ll even understand how to “think in functions” and implement design patterns in a functional way. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to write faster and cleaner production code in C++ with the help of functional programming.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Functional Building Blocks in C++
7
Section 2: Design with Functions
12
Section 3: Reaping the Benefits of Functional Programming
17
Section 4: The Present and Future of Functional Programming in C++

Mutable changes with actions

In addition to views, the ranges library offers actions. Actions allow eager, mutable operations. For example, to sort the values in the same vector, we can use the following syntax:

TEST_CASE("Sort numbers"){
vector<int> numbers{1, 12, 5, 20, 2, 10, 17, 25, 4};
vector<int> expected{1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 12, 17, 20, 25};

numbers |= ranges::action::sort;

CHECK_EQ(expected, numbers);
}

The |= operator is similar to the ranges::action::sort(numbers) call, sorting the vector in place. Actions are also composable, either through a direct method call or with the | operator. This allows allows us to write code that sorts and keeps the unique items from a container through composition of the sort and unique actions with the | operator:

TEST_CASE("Sort numbers and pick unique"){
vector<int> numbers{1, 1, 12, 5,...