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Igor Wiedler
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Dysfunctional Programming (phpnw13)
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Transcript
Dysfunctional Programming
@igorwesome
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Immuteability: The property of functional programmers that prevents them from
shutting up about pure functional programming. – Reg Braithwaite @raganwald
dys·func·tion·al
php λ
Paradigms
procedural Object- Oriented functional logic
Imperative Declarative
Structure Time & State
Structure
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‘sup?
None
it’s not about the money
• Message passing • Interfaces • Composition • (Not inheritance)
Actor model: Asynchronous
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f g h
tools and materials
• Value semantics • Higher-order functions • Lazy evaluation
The Garbage Overfloweth
$numberCollection = new NumberCollection(); $numberParser = new SimpleNumberStringParser(); $firstParsedNumber =
$numberParser->parse('1'); $firstNumber = new SimpleNumber($firstParsedNumber); $firstNumberProxy = new CollectionItemNumberProxy($firstNumber); $numberCollection->add($firstNumberProxy); $secondParsedNumber = $numberParser->parse('1'); $secondNumber = new SimpleNumber($secondParsedNumber); $secondNumberProxy = new CollectionItemNumberProxy($secondNumber); $numberCollection->add($secondNumberProxy); $addition = new AdditionOperator('SimplePHPEasyPlus\Number\SimpleNumber'); $operation = new ArithmeticOperation($addition); $engine = new Engine($operation); $calcul = new Calcul($engine, $numberCollection); $runner = new CalculRunner(); $runner->run($calcul); $result = $calcul->getResult(); $numericResult = $result->getValue();
1 + 1
Composition
c a b a b
a b c
Higher-order functions
Dependency Injection
Inversion of control is really just a pretentious way of
saying “Taking an argument”. – Rúnar Óli @runarorama
Taking an argument
g g’
0 1 2 3 4 even? 0 2 4
0 1 2 3 4 #(+ 5 %) 5 7
9 6 8
3 6 7 9 + 0 9 25 3 16
acumulator
Datastructures
Number 42 String "Hello, cruel world." Map {:foo "bar", :baz
"qux"} List [:a :b :c] Set #{"Arthur Dent" "Ford Prefect"}
function is a means of abstraction
data is a means of abstraction
Structure Time & State
Time & State
Place-Oriented Programming
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identity
new Foo("x") !== new Foo("x")
defensive copy
$users = new UserList(); $users->add(new User("Igor")); notify($users);
while (count($users)) { $user = $users->shift(); notifyUser($user); }
notify(clone $users)
observation
$user->getName()
$user["name"]
Value
Primitives
Value Object
date address money response request
serialization
History
Objects are forgetful
$sophie->setName("Joanna")
2013-09-13 01:01:47 Sophie 2013-09-13 01:02:25 Joanna 2013-09-13 01:05:31 Caroline
$joanna = $sophie->setName("Joanna")
Git
98ca9 34ac2 f30ab master Snapshot A Snapshot B Snapshot C
Epochal Time Model
v1 v2 v3 v4 f f f identity states events
Lazy evaluation
Iterator Generator Stream
a b c d a’ b’ c’ d’ consume
Order of execution becomes implicit
๏ filter ๏ map ๏ reduce
What about I/O?
Filesystem Database Network }is a place
Separate I/O from computation
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What about testing?
But I heard static methods are untestable and evil
You cannot mock functions
Why do we mock?
Functions are fast
Impure parts are mocked by passing functions
my_beautiful_program(function () { return do_evil_shit(); })
Pure functions are inherently testable
But functions make code look awkward!
strlen(get_name(get_user($data)))
$data |> get_user |> get_name |> strlen
pipeline('get_user', 'get_name', 'strlen')
But PHP does not properly support functions!
use function igorw\edn\parse; $data = parse($edn);
PHP 5.6 will hopefully get function autoloading
Applicability of the functional paradigm
f g h i j k l
A foo foo foo foo B foo foo C foo
foo D foo foo E foo foo
Granularity
None
Queue
๏ Value semantics ๏ Higher-order functions ๏ Lazy evaluation
pure functions
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Questions? • joind.in/{ 9471, 9472 } • github.com/igorw/edn • github.com/nikic/iter
• @igorwesome
References • The Paradigms of Programming by Robert W. Floyd
• Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns by Steve Yegge • The Value of Values by Rich Hickey • Are we there yet? by Rich Hickey