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Gabriele Petronella
February 18, 2015
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Transcript
JUST, WHAT IS Scala?
AS A START, IT'S NOT...
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NOT that OBVIOUS, TRUST ME
HISTORY (ALMOST) 2003 - A drunken Martin Odersky sees a
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup ad featuring somebody's peanut butter getting on somebody else's chocolate and has an idea...
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HISTORY (ALMOST) He creates Scala, a language that unifies constructs
from both object oriented and functional languages. This pisses off both groups and each promptly declares jihad. — James Iry
JOKES ASIDE...
OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING ENCAPSULATE FUNCTIONALITIES INTO OBJECTS
RANDOM WORDS (FROM WIKIPEDIA) METHODS, MESSAGE PASSING, INFORMATION HIDING, DATA
ABSTRACTION, ENCAPSULATION, POLYMORPHISM, INHERITANCE
FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING ACTUAL MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS NO SIDE EFFECTS
RANDOM WORDS (FROM WIKIPEDIA) LAMBDA CALCULUS, COMPOSITIONALITY, RECURSION, REFERENTIAL TRANSPARENCY,
NO SIDE EFFECTS
Though OOP came from many motivations, two were central
The large scale one was to find a better module
scheme for complex systems involving hiding of details
...and the small scale one was to find a more
flexible version of assignment, and then to try to eliminate it altogether.
It is unfortunate that much of what is called “object-oriented
programming” today is simply old style programming with fancier constructs.
THE EARLY HISTORY OF SMALLTALK ALAN KAY, 1993
CAN WE HAVE OUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO?
FUNCTIONAL + OO PROGRAMMING ???
MEET Scala
MODULAR PROGRAMMING OO FOR MODULARITY FP FOR DATA MANIPULATION
A PRACTICAL LANGUAGE
JAVA INTEROPERABILITY SCALA -> JAVA JAVA -> SCALA
EASY TO DEPLOY RUNS ON A JVM* *RAM NOT INCLUDED
FAST YEP
EXTENSIBLE BY DESIGN (MORE ON THIS LATER)
THEY TOLD ME SCALA IS COMPLICATED
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WELL OK, MAYBE SOMETIMES...
LET'S BUILD A USER CLASS PRETTY BASIC RIGHT?
public class Person implements Serializable { private final String firstName;
private final String lastName; public Person(String firstName, String lastName) { this.firstName = firstName; this.lastName = lastName; } public String getFirstName() { return firstName; } public void setFirstName(String firstName) { this.firstName = firstName; } public String getLastName() { return lastName; } public void setLastName(String lastName) { this.lastName = lastName; } }
public class Person implements Serializable { private final String firstName;
private final String lastName; public Person(String firstName, String lastName) { this.firstName = firstName; this.lastName = lastName; } public String getFirstName() { return firstName; } public void setFirstName(String firstName) { this.firstName = firstName; } public String getLastName() { return lastName; } public void setLastName(String lastName) { this.lastName = lastName; } public boolean equals(Object o) { if (this == o) { return true; } if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) { return false; } Person person = (Person) o; if (firstName != null ? !firstName.equals(person.firstName) : person.firstName != null) { return false; } if (lastName != null ? !lastName.equals(person.lastName) : person.lastName != null) { return false; } return true; } public int hashCode() { int result = firstName != null ? firstName.hashCode() : 0; result = 31 * result + (lastName != null ? lastName.hashCode() : 0); return result; } public String toString() { return "Person(" + firstName + "," + lastName + ")"; } }
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case class User(firstName: String, lastName: String)
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LET'S SORT OUR USERS
JAVA Collections.sort(users, new Comparator<User>() { public int compare(User a, User
b) { return a.getLastName().compare(b.getLastName()); } });
SCALA users.sortBy(x => x.firstName) RUBY users.sort_by {|x| x.firstName}
SCALA users.sortBy(_.firstName) RUBY users.sort_by(&:firstName)
SCALABLE DESIGN FEW, BUT POWERFUL CONCEPTS
TYPES
DYNAMIC TYPING function subtract(x, y) { return x - y;
} subtract(42, 2) // 40, that was easy!
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OR NOT...
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DYNAMIC TYPING if (new Date().getDay() === 2) { var foo
= subtract('foo', 'fo'); return foo.concat('!'); }
QUESTION 1 IS THIS BROKEN?
BOY, IF IT IS!
QUESTION 2 WHEN WILL IT BREAK?
NEXT TUESDAY (AND THE ONE AFTER THAT, AND THE ONE
AFTER...)
QUESTION 3 WHERE WILL IT BREAK?
ONLY X KNOWS WHERE X IS YOUR FAVORITE GOD
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LET'S TRY AGAIN
STATIC TYPING (FTW!)
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STATIC TYPING def subtract(x: Int, y: Int): Int = x
- y subtract(42, 2) // 40, that was easy
STATIC TYPING import java.util.Date // because fuck you if (new
Date().getDay() == 2) { val foo = subtract("foo", "fo"); return foo.concat("!"); }
QUESTION 1 IS THIS BROKEN?
YOU BETCHA!
QUESTION 2 WHEN WILL IT BREAK?
RIGHT NOW ACTUALLY, AFTER IT COMPILES, SO IT MIGHT WELL
BE NEXT TUESDAY
QUESTION 3 WHERE WILL IT BREAK?
RIGHT HERE NO CELESTIAL ENTITIES INVOLVED
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TRAITS
TRAITS trait Polite { def salutation: String def greet =
println(salutation) }
TRAITS trait Polite { def salutation: String def greet =
println(salutation) } class User(name: String) extends Polite { def salutation = s"Hello, my name is $name" }
TRAITS trait Polite { def salutation: String def greet =
println(salutation) } class User(name: String) extends Polite { def salutation = s"Hello, my name is $name" } new User("Gabriele").greet // Hello, my name is Gabriele
IMPLICIT PARAMETERS
IMPLICIT PARAMETERS val hi = "Hi there!" def greet(s: String)
= println(s) greet(hi) // Hi there!
IMPLICIT PARAMETERS implicit val hi = "Hi there!" def greet(implicit
s: String) = println(s) greet // Hi there!
IMPLICIT PARAMETERS DB.withConnection { connection => Query("SELECT * FROM USERS").execute(connection)
} DB.withConnection { implicit connection => Query("SELECT * FROM USERS").execute }
TRAITS + IMPLICITS = TYPECLASSES
TYPE CLASSES class Semigroup a where append :: a ->
a -> a instance Semigroup Integer where append a b = a + b Prelude> append 42 7 49
TYPE CLASSES trait Semigroup[A] { def append(a1: A, a2: A):
A } implicit val SemigroupInt = new Semigroup[Int] { def append(x: Int, y: Int) = x + y } def append[A](x: A, y: A)(implicit s: Semigroup[A]) = s.append(x, y) scala> append(42, 7) res0: Int = 49
IMPLICIT CONVERSIONS
IMPLICIT CONVERSIONS In ruby: 2.even? // true 2.odd? // false
IMPLICIT CONVERSIONS In scala: 2.isEven // error: value isEven is
not a member of Int
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IMPLICIT CONVERSIONS def isEven(n: Int) = n % 2 ==
0 def isOdd(n: Int) = !isEven(n) isEven(2) // true isEven(3) // false isOdd(3) // true isOdd(2) // false
IMPLICIT CONVERSIONS class PimpedInt(n: Int) { def isEven = n
% 2 == 0 def isOdd = !isEven } new PimpedInt(2).isEven // true new PimpedInt(2).isOdd // false new PimpedInt(2) + 3 // :-(
IMPLICIT CONVERSIONS implicit def toPimpedInt(n: Int) = new PimpedInt(n) 2.isEven
// true 3.isEven // false 3.isOdd // true 2.isOdd // false like ruby, plus, it won't break next tuesday
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SYNTAX INFIX METHODS
INFIX METHODS 1 + 2 // 3 1.+(2) // 3
List(1, 2, 3).map(x => x + 1) // List(2, 3, 4) List(1, 2, 3) map (x => x + 1) // List(2, 3, 4)
SYNTAX TRAILING PARAMETERS
TRAILING PARAMETERS def sum(x: Int)(y: Int) = x + y
sum(42)(2) // 44 sum(42) { 2 } // 44
TRAILING PARAMETERS def foo(f: Int) = f * 2 foo(32
+ 2) // 68 foo { val y = 4 * 8 y + 2 } // 68
IMPLICITS + SYNTAX = DSL
DSL lastSender ! "finished" forAll { (x: Int, y: Int)
=> (x > 0) ==> (y > 0) }
DSL (EXPLICIT VERSION) lastSender.!("finished") forAll((x: Int, y: Int) => (x
> 0).==>(y > 0))
DSL "A Stack" should "pop values in LIFO order" in
{ val stack = new Stack[Int] stack.push(1) stack.push(2) stack.pop() should be (2) stack.pop() should be (1) }
DSL (EXPLICIT VERSION) toShouldable("A Stack").should("pop values in LIFO order").in(x =>
val stack = new Stack[Int] stack.push(1) stack.push(2) stack.pop().should().be(2) stack.pop().should().be(1) )
SCALA RECAP
MODULAR FP + OO
PRACTICAL JAVA INTEROP, JVM, FAST
EXTENSIBLE SIMPLE BUILDING BLOCKS
THANK YOU