Functional Programming介紹

命令式 (Imperative) v.s 宣告式 (Declarative)

• 命令式 Imperative：強調的是執行過程，通常會暴露非常多細節，比較具象
• 宣告式 Declarative：強調的是執行結果，在思考過程中會隱藏細節，比較抽象

Functional programming 是 Declarative Paradigm 的代表，邏輯為用較為抽象的程式碼，理解程式碼想要達到怎樣的目標，Function 之間不會互相共用 state 狀態，而 Imperative 代表 OOP 比較容易寫出狀態互相依賴的程式碼。

Imperative(命令式) is How to do stuff

Imperative programming is a programming paradigm that uses statements that change a program's state.

著重在 HOW，具體表達程式碼該做什麼才能達到目標，比較像我以前撰寫程式的思維，程式一步一步按著順序照著你給他指示執行。Imperative 比較常運用 Statement ，也就是 if , while , for , switch 等。

• Example: OOP

• Stateful

• Can mutate state

• 常會有 Side Effect 發生

Declarative(宣告式) is What's stuff

Declarative programming is a programming paradigm that expresses the logic of a computation without describing its control flow.

著重在該做什麼 WHAT ，並採取抽象化流程。Declarative 比較常運用表達式 expression，表達式特色是單純運算並一定會有返回值

• Example: FP

• Stateless: 你只要專心於當前算式，結束後再也不用管他

• Constants, immutability

• No Side Effect

// Imperative is How to do stuff
var array = [3,2,1]
var total = 0
for( var i = 0 ; i <= array.length ; i ++ ){
    total += array[i]
}

// Declarative is What's stuff
var array = [3,2,1]
array.reduce(function( previous, current ){ 
    return previous + current 
})

複雜的時候 就有差別了~

今天有一個函式 doStuff ，input 是一個字串 'Welcome to FP world '，需要

• 轉小寫、去掉空格 welcome to fp world

• 輸出個別字串長度 > 3 字元的字串 welcome world

• 反轉 world welcome

// Imperative is How to do staff
// 'Welcome to FP world'
const doStuff = str => {
  const lower = str.toLowerCase()  // 'welcome to fp world'
  const words = lower.split(' ') // ['welcome', 'to', 'fp', 'world']
 
  words.reverse() // ['world', 'fp', 'to', 'welcome']
 
  for(let i in words) {
    words[i] = words[i].trim()
  } // ['world', 'fp', 'to', 'welcome']
 
  let keepers = []
 
  for(let i in words) {
    if(words[i].length > 3) {
      keepers.push(words[i])
    }  // ['world', 'welcome']
  }
 
  return keepers.join(' ') // 'world welcome'
}
 
doStuff('Welcome to FP world')

// Declarative is What's stuff
// 'Welcome to FP world'
const doStuff = _.compose(
  join(' '),
  _.filter(x => x.length > 3),
  reverse,
  _.map(trim),
  split(' '),
  toLowerCase
)