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Exercises in Programming Style
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Exercises in Programming Style

by Cristina Videira Lopes
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
5h 23m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 8

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8.1 Constraints

Variation of the Pipeline style, with the following additional constraints:

  • Each function takes an additional parameter, usually the last, which is another function.
  • That function parameter is applied at the end of the current function.
  • That function parameter is given, as input, what would be the output of the current function.
  • The larger problem is solved as a pipeline of functions, but where the next function to be applied is given as parameter to the current function.

8.2 A Program in this Style

  1 #!/usr/bin/env python
  2 import sys, re, operator, string
  3
  4 #
  5 # The functions
  6 #
  7 def read_file(path_to_file, ...
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ISBN: 9781482227376