A new design pattern explained in Ruby:

Expressing the problem

A new design pattern explained in Ruby:

August 1, 2012 Tagged: object algebra academic wankery expression problem ruby object-oriented programming strategy pattern abstract factory Comments (View) Expressing the problem Object-oriented languages are good at adding new data; functional languages are good at adding new behavior. Can we find a happy medium? The answer: Sorta. First I’ll explain what I’m talking about, with examples. At the bottom of this article I’ll talk about the lambda calculus. Oh and before that I’ll talk about something relevant to normal Ruby programming, in case that’s something you’re still into. The problem But first let’s start even simpler: we are going to represent addition in Ruby. class Literal def initialize(n) @n = n end def evaluate @n end end class Addition def initialize(a, b) @a = a @b = b end def evaluate @a.evaluate + @b.evaluate end end No magic going on here. We can evaluat...

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