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Penelope Phippen
July 21, 2014
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Types and Refactoring
A talk about types and refactoring I gave at Brighton Ruby 2014.
Penelope Phippen
July 21, 2014
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Transcript
Types & Refactoring
a!/samphippen
Types
I think type systems are great!
I think dynamic languages are great!
I think thinking about types in dynamic languages is great!
RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUBYYYYYYYYYYYYYY YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
No type systems here
NoMethodError: undefined method `foo' for nil:NilClass
No explicit type systems here
What is a type?
Concrete implementation of some data and behaviour
Class
1.class # => FixNum
(1.0).class # => Float
What is a typeclass?
A set of methods satisfied by many types
Interface
(1+1.0).class # => Float (1.0+1).class # => Float
But also things like
Positive Int + Positive Int # => Positive Int
some_collection.count
String Hash Array
Form a typeclass (or interface) under count with no args
Methods that return consistent interfaces are great
The problem
We’re not forced to return a single interface
If interface is inconsistent, code must check types further down
For example returning nil
nil is not type classed the same as your object!
pony = Pony.find_by(:key => value) if pony pony.neigh else puts
“pony was nil” end
The if is a subtle form of type checking.
Type checking is the antithesis of OO
Can we get a consistent interface?
Refactoring
Null object
class Pony def horse_power 0.5 end end
Pony.find_by( :key => value ) || NullPony.new
class NullPony def horse_power 0 end end
Decides default for horse_power at define time
May or may not be what you want
Maybe
Steal ideas from functional programming!
Decide defaults at run time
Maybe is a type class
#map(&blk) -> maybe #value_or(x) -> Object
class Just def initialize(value) @value = value end def map(&blk)
def value_or(x) Just.new(blk.call(@value)) @value end end end
class Nothing def map(&blk) self end def value_or(x) x end
end
Map until done with transforms
use maybe.value_or(“something”)
Recap
Methods that return nil are almost always inconsistently typed
Use a null object to replace a nil if you
know defaults at define time
Use maybe if you want to set defaults at run
time
RSpec RSpec ! ! RSpec 3
tinyurl.com/ sambr2014
Let’s have some questions a!/samphippen
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