[chuck-users] Functional Chuck?

[mike clemow]

Hey folks,

Anyone else really wish that Chuck supported higher order functions???

check it out.  This doesn't work, but i'd love for it to work:

// a function that returns an int
fun int fn( int n ) {
    return n + 3;
}

// a function that takes a function and an array of ints
// and returns an array of ints which correspond to the action
// of that function on each int in the original array
fun int[] mapInt( function fn, int list[] ) {
    int results[list.cap()];
    for( 0 => int i; i < list.cap(); i++ ) {
        fn( list[i] ) => results[i];
    }
    return results;
}

[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] @=> input;

Add3 add3;

mapInt( add3, input ) => int output[];

<<< output[2] >>>;  // should print 6

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I just wish that functions could take other functions as parameters
and return functions as their return value.  I think that would make
sense.  Functions, I find are more powerful than classes in Chuck.

Also, why is "function" a keyword?

cheers,
mike

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