wtfunctional/tex/wtfunctional.tex

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\title{WTFunctional}
\author{Oliver Rümpelein}
\subtitle{Using functional structures in non-functional languages}

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\section{Dafunc?}
\subsection{Functional programming}
\begin{frame}{Understanding functional paradigms}
    Here: so called \enquote{purely functional} paradigm.
    \begin{itemize}
    \item<+-> Programming without \enquote{side-effects}
        \begin{itemize}
        \item<+-> No mutability
        \item<+-> Functions work only in local context
        \end{itemize}
    \item<+-> Extensive use of lists and so called maps/reduces (later)
    \item<+-> Do not mix up with \enquote{procedural} programming (using only functions)!
    \end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile]{Example}
    %ToDo: C-code call by value, call by reference.
    \begin{cppcode}
        int f(int  x) { return ++x;}
        int g(int& x) { return ++x;}
        int main() {
          int x = 2;
          f(x);
          assert(x==2); // f is “functional”
          g(x);
          assert(x!=2); // g is not!
        }
    \end{cppcode}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{Pros and Cons}
    Pros:
    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
    \item Maintainability
    \item Testing
    \item (often) shorter code
    \end{itemize}
    Cons:
    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
    \item harder to learn
    \item harder to understand
    \item slower due to abstraction
    \end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\subsection{Case study: Haskell}
\begin{frame}{Overview}
    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
    \item \emph{Haskell} is a purely functional, compiled programming language
        developed since 1990.
    \item It is typed and has a strong meta-type system (comparable to
        interfaces in OOP)
    \item The most important implementation is \emph{GHC} (Glasgow Haskell
        Compiler)
    \item Haskell is lazy. Statements get evaluated only when needed, if ever.
    \end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile]{Syntax – Functions}
    Function constraints, definition and calls:
    \begin{haskell}
        mysum :: Num a => a -> a -> a -> a
        mysum x y z = x + y + z
        -- b == 6
        b = mysum 1 2 3
    \end{haskell}
    \pause
    Functions always get evaluated left to right, thus the following works (\emph{Currying}):
    \begin{haskell}
        mysum2 = mysum 2
        -- c == 12
        c = mysum2 4 6
    \end{haskell}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile]{Syntax – Lists (1)}
    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
    \item Lists in Haskell can only hold data of one type. They are defined using
        \haskellcmd{a = [1,2,3,4]} or similar.
    \item An automatic range can be obtained by using \haskellcmd{b = [1..4]},
        where the last number is inclusive.
    \item If possible, Haskell will try to inhibit the step
        automatically. \haskellcmd{c = [1,3..7]} yields
        \haskellcmd{[1,3,5,7]}.
    \item When leaving out the end specifier, a range can be infinite. In this case,
        it's up to the programmer to constrain things.
    \end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile]{Syntax – Lists (2)}
    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
    \item Two lists can be concatenated using the \haskellcmd{++} operator:
        \haskellcmd{[1,2,3] ++ [4..7]}
    \item Single objects get pushed to the front using
        \enquote{\haskellcmd{:}}: \haskellcmd{1:[2..7]}.    
    \item This can also be used vice versa to extract single values from lists:
        \begin{haskell}
            extract (x:xs) = x
            -- a = 1
            a = extract [1..5]
        \end{haskell}
    \end{itemize}
\end{frame}
    
\begin{frame}[fragile]{Syntax – Recursion}
    Example: Add a value to every entry in an array
    \begin{haskell}
        addto :: (Num a) => [a] -> a -> [a]
        addto [] _ = [] -- edge case (list empty)
        addto (x:xs) y = (x+y) : addto xs y
        b = [1..4]
        -- c == [5,6,7,8]
        c = addto b 4
    \end{haskell}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile]{Lambdas}
    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
    \item By now: lambda-functions well known from other programming languages
    \item Represent \enquote{anonymous} functions, i.e. locally defined functions
        without associated name
    \item Can simply be passed to algorithms, i.e. sort.
    \item Syntax: \haskellcmd{\var1 var2 -> retval}
    \end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile]{Maps, Filters}
    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
    \item A \emph{Map} applies a function to all elements of a list:
        \haskellcmd{map (^2) c}\quad (square the elements of c)
    \item A \emph{Filter} does exactly that to a list:
        \haskellcmd{filter (\x -> (mod x 2) == 0) c} \quad (even numbers in c,
        filtering done using a lambda function)
    \end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile]{Folds (1)}
    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
    \item \emph{Folds} (or sometimes \emph{reductions}) create single values
        using whole lists, i.e. sums over all elements
    \item Often implemented using recursion
    \item Need a function, an initialization value and a list
    \end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile]{Folds (2)}
    \uncover<+-> Example: Self written Right fold and sum: 
    \begin{haskell}
        mfold f z [] = z
        mfold f z (x:xs) = f x (mfold f z xs)
        msum = mfold (+) 0
        -- g == 5050
        g = msum [1..100]
    \end{haskell}
    \uncover<+->{Note that this gets pretty resource hungry with large
      lists, better use left-folds for this (see~\cite{whichfold})}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile]{Example: Pythagorean triangles}
    Get all Pythagorean triangles with a hypotenuse off length at most 15:
    \begin{haskell}
        > [(a,b,c) | a <- [1..15],
                     b <- [1..a],
                     c <- [1..b],
                     a^2 == b^2 + c^2]
        [(5,4,3),(10,8,6),(13,12,5),(15,12,9)]
    \end{haskell}
\end{frame}    

\begin{frame}[fragile]{Example: Bubble-sort}
    Recursive, functional bubble-sort algorithm:
    \begin{haskell}
        bsort f [] = []
        bsort f (x:xs) = (bsort f a) ++ [x] ++ (bsort f b)
          where a = [ y | y <- xs, not (f x y) ]
                b = [ y | y <- xs, (f x y) ]
        mbsort = bsort (\x y -> (x > y))
    \end{haskell}
    \pause Result:
    \begin{haskell}
        λ> h = [1, 20, -10, 5]
        λ> mbsort h
        [-10,1,5,29]
    \end{haskell}
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\begin{frame}[plain]{References}
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