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Fibonacci (Recursive Lambda)

Fibonacci (Recursive Lambda)

98b. Yet another Fibonacci function.

Lambda?

In brief: Just another way of calling anonymous function (function that had no name).

This way, even you do a recursive function. The name of function doesn't even leak to global scope!

Then Why?

1st this is (at some point) a fundamental of functional programming, a very interesting programming paradigm. 2nd isn't it fun?

How Can It Work?

You got confused how the hell on earth an unnamed-function can do recursion, right? Well then if we give it a name (for learning propose, of course).

    f = function(arg){return arg+1;}

And we define some function

    h = function(func){return func(1) * func(4);}

Then you'll see that

    h(f) /* can pass function f (which is unnamed) into 2 place. you can reuse it! */

Now, we need to modify our h function to be a combinator, which is something that had behavior like

    h(f); /* will yield */ f(h, f);

I'll leave the rest for your own fun. Hope you like it!

function(v) { // main function wrapper
return(
function(f, a){return f(f, a)}( // lambda combinator
function(r, n){ // fibonacci recursive function
return n>1? // check
r(r, n-1) + r(r, n-2): // recursive
n // terminate
},
v // feed arg to make it start
)
)
}
function(v){return(function(f,a){return f(f,a)}(function(r,n){return n>1?r(r,n-1)+r(r,n-2):n},v))}
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{
"name": "fibonacciRecursiveLambda",
"description": "learn recursive the hard way.",
"keywords": [
"fibonacci",
"recursive",
"lambda",
"combinator",
"functional"
]
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>Fibonacci (Recursive Lambda)</title>
<div>Expected value: <b>1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55</b></div>
<div>Actual value: <b id="ret"></b></div>
<script>
// write a small example that shows off the API for your example
// and tests it in one fell swoop.
var fib = function(v){return(function(f,a){return f(f,a)}(function(r,n){return n>1?r(r,n-1)+r(r,n-2):n},v))}
document.getElementById( "ret" ).innerHTML = function(t,i){for(i=0;i<10;t[i++]=fib(i));return t}([])
</script>
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maettig commented Mar 20, 2012

This is clever. You made JavaScript look like Scheme (or Lisp, if you are more familiar with this). I like that.

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