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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
1
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++

Lazy evaluation using the ranges library

The ranges library offers a facility called views. Views allow the construction of immutable and cheap data ranges from iterators. They don't copy the data—they just refer to it. We can use view to filter all of the even numbers from our collection:

ranges::view::filter(numbers, isEven)

Views can be composed without any copying and by using the composition operator, |. For example, we can obtain the list of numbers divisible by 6 by composing two filters: the first one on even numbers, and the second on numbers divisible by 3. Given a new predicate that checks whether a number is multiple of 3, we use the following:

auto isMultipleOf3 = [](const auto number){
return number % 3 == 0;
};

We obtain the list of numbers divisible by 6 through the following composition:

numbers | ranges::view::filter(isEven) | ranges::view::filter...