Skip to Content
Learning Functional Programming in Go
book

Learning Functional Programming in Go

by Lex Sheehan
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
670 pages
17h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Learning Functional Programming in Go

Generators

Time to check out generators. Generators are useful because they allow us to delay an expression evaluation. We only compute the expression(s) we need when we need them. Generators also conserve memory because with generators, we only create and use what we need, no more:

PrintCars("GenerateCars(1, 3)",       cars.GenerateCars(1, 3))

We will find the implementation of GenerateCars in the generate.go file:

package hofimport (       "sync"       "log")func carGenerator(iterator func(int) int, lower int, upper int) func() (int, bool) {       return func() (int, bool) {              lower = iterator(lower)              return lower, lower > upper       }}func iterator(i int) int {       i += 1       return i}

We define our imports. The sync import is a clue that we have a need to synchronize our Goroutines. ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Learning Functional Programming

Learning Functional Programming

Jack Widman

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781787281394Supplemental Content