Re: DeveloperWorks Article: Use closures and higher order functions to write modular Java code

I blogged about this yesterday to show how verbose doing functors & 
closures in Java is compared to other languages...

http://tinyurl.com/3rmeu

On 16 Jul 2004, at 04:45, Gerald Bauer wrote:

> Hello,
>
>   Allow me to highlight the IBM developerWorks article
> by Abhijit Belapurkar titled "Functional programming
> in the Java language - Use closures and higher order
> functions to write modular Java code".
>
>   Abhijit writes:
>
>    This article will introduce you to the basic
> characteristics of functional programming, but will
> focus on two elements that are especially applicable
> to the Java development framework: closures and higher
> order functions. If you've ever worked with an agile
> development language such as Python, Ruby, or Groovy,
> then you've probably already encountered these
> elements. Here, you'll see what happens when you apply
> them directly within a Java development framework.
> I'll start with a short, conceptual overview of
> functional programming and its core elements, and then
> use common programming scenarios to demonstrate the
> benefits that a structured approach to using closures
> and higher order functions can bring to your Java
> code.
>
>   Full story  <at> 
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-fp.html
>
>
>   Anyone wants to clean up any of the plain old Java
> coding samples using closures and see how much simpler
> it all looks in Groovy?
>
>   How about this business rule sample using closures
> in plain old Java?
>
>   double discountRate = 0.1;
> 	double taxRate=0.33;
> 	double maxDiscount = 30;
> 	SETLItem item = new SETLItem();
> 	item.setPrice(350);
> 	UnaryFunction calcDiscount =
> 	  new RightBoundFunction(new Multiply(), new
> Double(discountRate));
> 	Constant cap = new Constant(new Double(maxDiscount));
> 	BinaryFunction calcActualDiscount =
> 	  new UnaryCompositeBinaryFunction (new Min(),
> calcDiscount, cap);
> 	BinaryFunctionUnaryFunction calcActualDiscountAsUnary
> =
> 	  new
> BinaryFunctionUnaryFunction(calcActualDiscount);
> 	BinaryFunction calcDiscountedPrice =
> 	  new UnaryCompositeBinaryFunction (new Subtract(),
> new Identity(), calcActualDiscountAsUnary);
> 	BinaryFunctionUnaryFunction
> calcDiscountedPriceAsUnary =
> 	  new
> BinaryFunctionUnaryFunction(calcDiscountedPrice);	
> 	UnaryFunction calcTax =
> 	  new RightBoundFunction(new Multiply(), new
> Double(1+taxRate));
> 	CompositeUnaryFunction calcNetPrice =
> 	  new CompositeUnaryFunction(calcTax,
> calcDiscountedPriceAsUnary);
> 	Double netPrice = (Double)calcNetPrice.evaluate(new
> Double(item.getPrice()));
> 	System.out.println("The net price is: " + netPrice);
>
>     Any takers?
>
>   - Gerald
>
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