-- -- 1. Primitive datatypes that corresponds to their JavaScript -- equivalents at runtime. import Prelude -- Numbers 1.0 + 7.2*5.5 :: Number -- 40.6 -- Ints 1 + 2*5 :: Int -- 11 -- Types are inferred, so the following works fine 9.0/2.5 + 4.4 -- 8.0 -- But Ints and Numbers don't mix, so the following won't 5/2 + 2.5 -- Expression 2.5 does not have type Int -- Hexadecimal literals 0xff + 1 -- 256 -- Unary negation 6 * -3 -- -18 6 * negate 3 -- -18 -- Modulus, from purescript-math (Math) 3.0 % 2.0 -- 1.0 4.0 % 2.0 -- 0.0 -- Inspect the type of an expression in psci :t 9.5/2.5 + 4.4 -- Number -- Booleans true :: Boolean -- true false :: Boolean -- false -- Negation not true -- false 23 == 23 -- true 1 /= 4 -- true 1 >= 4 -- false -- Comparisons < <= > >= -- are defined in terms of compare compare 1 2 -- LT compare 2 2 -- EQ compare 3 2 -- GT -- Conjunction and Disjunction true && (9 >= 19 || 1 < 2) -- true -- Strings "Hello" :: String -- "Hello" -- Multiline string without newlines, to run in PSCi use "paste" mode. "Hello\ \orld" -- "Helloworld" -- Multiline string with newlines """Hello world""" -- "Hello\nworld" -- Concatenate "such " <> "amaze" -- "such amaze" -- -- 2. Arrays are JavaScript arrays, but must be homogeneous [1,1,2,3,5,8] :: Array Int -- [1,1,2,3,5,8] [1.2,2.0,3.14] :: Array Number -- [1.2,2.0,3.14] [true, true, false] :: Array Boolean -- [true,true,false] -- [1,2, true, "false"] won't work -- `Cannot unify Int with Boolean` -- Requires purescript-arrays (Data.Array) -- Cons (prepend) 1 : [2,4,3] -- [1,2,4,3] -- and purescript-maybe (Data.Maybe) -- Safe access return Maybe a head [1,2,3] -- (Just 1) tail [3,2,1] -- (Just [2,1]) init [1,2,3] -- (Just [1,2]) last [3,2,1] -- (Just 1) -- Array access - indexing [3,4,5,6,7] !! 2 -- (Just 5) -- Range 1..5 -- [1,2,3,4,5] length [2,2,2] -- 3 drop 3 [5,4,3,2,1] -- [2,1] take 3 [5,4,3,2,1] -- [5,4,3] append [1,2,3] [4,5,6] -- [1,2,3,4,5,6] -- -- 3. Records are JavaScript objects, with zero or more fields, which -- can have different types. book = {title: "Foucault's pendulum", author: "Umberto Eco"} -- Access properties book.title -- "Foucault's pendulum" getTitle b = b.title -- Works on all records with a title (but doesn't require any other field) getTitle book -- "Foucault's pendulum" getTitle {title: "Weekend in Monaco", artist: "The Rippingtons"} -- "Weekend in Monaco" -- Can use underscores as shorthand _.title book -- "Foucault's pendulum" -- Update a record changeTitle b t = b {title = t} getTitle (changeTitle book "Ill nome della rosa") -- "Ill nome della rosa" -- -- 4. Functions -- In PSCi's paste mode sumOfSquares :: Int -> Int -> Int sumOfSquares x y = x*x + y*y sumOfSquares 3 4 -- 25 myMod x y = x % y myMod 3.0 2.0 -- 1.0 -- Infix application of function 3 `mod` 2 -- 1 -- function application has higher precedence than all other -- operators sumOfSquares 3 4 * sumOfSquares 4 5 -- 1025 -- Conditional abs' n = if n>=0 then n else -n abs' (-3) -- 3 -- Guarded equations -- In PSCi's paste mode abs'' n | n >= 0 = n | otherwise = -n -- Pattern matching -- Note the type signature, input is a list of numbers. The pattern matching -- destructures and binds the list into parts. -- Requires purescript-lists (Data.List) and purescript-maybe (Data.Maybe) first :: forall a. List a -> Maybe a first (x : _) = Just x first Nil = Nothing first (fromFoldable [3,4,5]) -- (Just 3) second :: forall a. List a -> Maybe a second Nil = Nothing second (_ : Nil) = Nothing second (_ : (y : _)) = Just y second (fromFoldable [3,4,5]) -- (Just 4) -- Complementing patterns to match -- Good ol' Fibonacci fib 1 = 1 fib 2 = 2 fib x = fib (x-1) + fib (x-2) fib 10 -- 89 -- Use underscore to match any, where you don't care about the binding name isZero 0 = true isZero _ = false isZero 9 -- false -- Pattern matching on records ecoTitle {author: "Umberto Eco", title: t} = Just t ecoTitle _ = Nothing ecoTitle {title: "Foucault's pendulum", author: "Umberto Eco"} -- (Just "Foucault's pendulum") ecoTitle {title: "The Quantum Thief", author: "Hannu Rajaniemi"} -- Nothing -- ecoTitle requires both field to type check: ecoTitle {title: "The Quantum Thief"} -- Object lacks required property "author" -- Lambda expressions (\x -> x*x) 3 -- 9 (\x y -> x*x + y*y) 4 5 -- 41 sqr = \x -> x*x -- Currying myAdd x y = x + y -- is equivalent with myAdd' = \x -> \y -> x + y add3 = myAdd 3 :t add3 -- Int -> Int -- Forward and backward function composition -- drop 3 followed by taking 5 (drop 3 >>> take 5) (1..20) -- [4,5,6,7,8] -- take 5 followed by dropping 3 (drop 3 <<< take 5) (1..20) -- [4,5] -- Operations using higher order functions even x = x `mod` 2 == 0 filter even (1..10) -- [2,4,6,8,10] map (\x -> x + 11) (1..5) -- [12,13,14,15,16] -- Requires purescript-foldable-traversable (Data.Foldable) foldr (+) 0 (1..10) -- 55 sum (1..10) -- 55 product (1..10) -- 3628800 -- Testing with predicate any even [1,2,3] -- true all even [1,2,3] -- false