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> listOfNumbers = [1,4,99] [1,4,99] : List number > > listOfStrings = ["Hello","World"] ["Hello","World"] : List String > > emptyList = [] -- can be anything, we don't know yet [] : List a > Under the hood, List (linked list) is ...

> ourList = [1,2,3,4,5] [1,2,3,4,5] : List number > > firstElement = List.head ourList Just 1 : Maybe Int > > allButFirst = List.tail ourList Just [2,3,4,5] : Maybe (List Int) This wrapping into Maybe type happens because of the following scenario: What should List.head ret...

List.map : (a -> b) -> List a -> List b is a higher-order function that applies a one-parameter function to each element of a list, returning a new list with the modified values. import String ourList : List String ourList = ["wubba", "lubba", "dub",...

List.filter : (a -> Bool) -> List a -> List a is a higher-order function which takes a one-parameter function from any value to a boolean, and applies that function to every element of a given list, keeping only those elements for which the function returns True on. The function that List.f...

def multiply(factor: Int)(numberToBeMultiplied: Int): Int = factor * numberToBeMultiplied val multiplyBy3 = multiply(3)_ // resulting function signature Int => Int val multiplyBy10 = multiply(10)_ // resulting function signature Int => Int val sixFromCurriedCall = multiplyBy3(2) //6...

def numberOrCharacterSwitch(toggleNumber: Boolean)(number: Int)(character: Char): String = if (toggleNumber) number.toString else character.toString // need to explicitly specify the type of the parameter to be curried // resulting function signature Boolean => String val switchBetween3A...

def minus(left: Int, right: Int) = left - right val numberMinus5 = minus(_: Int, 5) val fiveMinusNumber = minus(5, _: Int) numberMinus5(7) // 2 fiveMinusNumber(7) // -2

To create a collection of n copies of some object x, use the fill method. This example creates a List, but this can work with other collections for which fill makes sense: // List.fill(n)(x) scala > List.fill(3)("Hello World") res0: List[String] = List(Hello World, Hello World, Hello...

Partial functions are often used to define a total function in parts: sealed trait SuperType case object A extends SuperType case object B extends SuperType case object C extends SuperType val pfA: PartialFunction[SuperType, Int] = { case A => 5 } val pfB: PartialFunction[SuperType,...

While partial function are often used as convenient syntax for total functions, by including a final wildcard match (case _), in some methods, their partiality is key. One very common example in idiomatic Scala is the collect method, defined in the Scala collections library. Here, partial functions ...

Scala has a special type of function called a partial function, which extends normal functions -- meaning that a PartialFunction instance can be used wherever Function1 is expected. Partial functions can be defined anonymously using case syntax also used in pattern matching: val pf: PartialFunction...

Partial functions are very common in idiomatic Scala. They are often used for their convenient case-based syntax to define total functions over traits: sealed trait SuperType // `sealed` modifier allows inheritance within current build-unit only case object A extends SuperType case object B exten...

Some JavaScript engines (for example, the current version of Node.js and older versions of Chrome before Ignition+turbofan) don't run the optimizer on functions that contain a try/catch block. If you need to handle exceptions in performance-critical code, it can be faster in some cases to keep the ...

To trim whitespace from the edges of a string, use String.prototype.trim: " some whitespaced string ".trim(); // "some whitespaced string" Many JavaScript engines, but not Internet Explorer, have implemented non-standard trimLeft and trimRight methods. There is a proposa...

Use .slice() to extract substrings given two indices: var s = "0123456789abcdefg"; s.slice(0, 5); // "01234" s.slice(5, 6); // "5" Given one index, it will take from that index to the end of the string: s.slice(10); // "abcdefg"

Use .split to go from strings to an array of the split substrings: var s = "one, two, three, four, five" s.split(", "); // ["one", "two", "three", "four", "five"] Use the array method .join to go back to a string: s.split(&...

All JavaScript strings are unicode! var s = "some ∆≈ƒ unicode ¡™£¢¢¢"; s.charCodeAt(5); // 8710 There are no raw byte or binary strings in JavaScript. To effectively handle binary data, use Typed Arrays.

To detect whether a parameter is a primitive string, use typeof: var aString = "my string"; var anInt = 5; var anObj = {}; typeof aString === "string"; // true typeof anInt === "string"; // false typeof anObj === "string"; // false If you ev...

This demonstrates how to print each element of a Map val map = Map(1 -> "a", 2 -> "b") for (number <- map) println(number) // prints (1,a), (2,b) for ((key, value) <- map) println(value) // prints a, b This demonstrates how to print each element of a list val l...

Full example code included at the end Windows components for OpenGL WGL WGL (can be pronounced wiggle) stands for "Windows-GL", as in "an interface between Windows and OpenGL" - a set of functions from the Windows API to communicate with OpenGL. WGL functions have a wgl prefix...