fantasy-world

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Fantasy World

General

Collection of the Fantasy-Land implementations.

Fantasy-Land:

Prelude

Fantasy World also includes a collection of functions that make it easier to develop in Fantasy Land.

(More information to come)

Environment

An environment holds methods and properties.

Methods are implemented as multi-methods, which allow a form of ad-hoc polymorphism. Duck typing is another example of ad-hoc polymorphism, but only allows a single implementation at a time, via prototype mutation.

A method instance is a product of a name, a predicate and an implementation:

   var env = fantasy.environment()
       .method(
           // Name
           'negate',
           // Predicate
           function(n) {
               return typeof n == 'number';
           },
           // Implementation
           function(n) {
               return -n;
           }
       );
 
   env.negate(100) == -100;

We can now override the environment with Some more implementations:

   var env2 = env
       .method(
           'negate',
           function(b) {
               return typeof b == 'boolean';
           },
           function(b) {
               return !b;
           }
       );
 
   env2.negate(100) == -100;
   env2.negate(true) == false;

Environments are immutable; references to env won't see an implementation for boolean. The env2 environment could have overwritten the implementation for number and code relying on env would still work.

Properties can be accessed without dispatching on arguments. They can almost be thought of as methods with predicates that always return true:

   var env = fantasy.environment()
       .property('name', 'Fantasy');
 
   env.name === 'Fantasy';

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