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Combinator

Description

This package provides a list of well known Combinators.

A combinator is a higher-order function that uses only function application and earlier defined combinators to define a result from its arguments. It was introduced in 1920 by Moses Schönfinkel and Haskell Curry, and has more recently been used in computer science as a theoretical model of computation and also as a basis for the design of functional programming languages. Combinators which were introduced by Schönfinkel in 1920 with the idea of providing an analogous way to build up functions - and to remove any mention of variables - particularly in predicate logic.

Requirements

PHP >= 8

Installation

composer require loophp/combinator

Available combinators

Usage

Simple combinators

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

include 'vendor/autoload.php';

use loophp\combinator\Combinators;

// Lambda calculus: I combinator correspond to λa.a
Combinators::I()('a'); // a

// Lambda calculus: K combinator correspond to λa.λb.a (or λab.a)
Combinators::K()('a')('b'); // a

// Lambda calculus: C combinator correspond to λf(λa(λb(fba)))
// and thus: C K a b = b
Combinators::C()(Combinators::K())('a')('b'); // b

// Lambda calculus: Ki combinator correspond to λa.λb.b (or λab.b)
Combinators::Ki()('a')('b'); // b

Y combinator

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Test;

include __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use Closure;
use loophp\combinator\Combinators;

// Example 1
$factorialGenerator = static fn (Closure $fact): Closure =>
static fn (int $n): int  => (0 === $n) ? 1 : ($n * $fact($n - 1));

$factorial = Combinators::Y()($factorialGenerator);

var_dump($factorial(6)); // 720

// Example 2
$fibonacciGenerator = static fn (Closure $fibo): Closure =>
static fn (int $number): int => (1 >= $number) ? $number : $fibo($number - 1) + $fibo($number - 2);

$fibonacci = Combinators::Y()($fibonacciGenerator);

var_dump($fibonacci(10)); // 55

Contributing

Feel free to contribute by sending pull requests. We are a usually very responsive team and we will help you going through your pull request from the beginning to the end.

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Thanks

Authors

Pol Dellaiera

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for a changelog based on git commits.

For more detailed changelogs, please check the release changelogs.

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