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WIZARDELF
WIZARDELF

Reputation: 3885

how to make this operation functional style?

For example, we need to implement function Set addToSet(Stack, Object): it accept a Stack and some object that can be pushed into the stack; the input object should be pushed into the input stack; we need it to return a Set, which contains all elements of the input stack with the new object. If we push the new object into the stack, we violate the principle of functional programming. For some reason, we can't push the new object into the stack before or after invoking this function (i.e. do pushing outside the function). How should we do?

My guess solution is to copy the input stack to a new one first, and then modify the new stack and finally return the result Set with the new stack together. What's your opinion?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 79

Answers (1)

Need4Steed
Need4Steed

Reputation: 2180

How about:

function Stack pushToStack(Stack, Object)
function Set stackToSet(Stack)
stackToSet(pushToStack(Stack,Object))

No more side effect.

Upvotes: 1

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