Functional Programming - caffeine-suite/caffeine-script GitHub Wiki

Related: Declarative Programming

Functional Oriented Programming (FOP)

Pure-functional programming has zero side-effects. Functional Oriented programming attempts to minimize side-effects, but uses them where it makes sense. In other words, in an imperative language, it's programming in a mostly-functional style.

CaffeineScript Enhancements for Functional Oriented Programming

• Everything Returns a Value
• Smart This-Binding helps bridge the FOP/OOP (Functional / Object Oriented Programming) gap
• Comprehensions and Iteration allows you to express complex 'loops' in a declarative, functional way
• Expressive Literals, including Structuring, Destructuring and Restructuring allow you to construct and disassemble complex data-structures with little or no imperative code
• Restructuring combines destructuring and structuring into a functionally-useful form