Kestrels, Quirky Birds, and Hopeless Egocentricity
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Completed on 2013-10-01
About the Book
This book is made out of nearly 100% recycled blog posts. It collects Reg "Raganwald" Braithwaite's celebrated series of essays about Combinatory Logic, Method Combinators, and Ruby Meta-Programing into a convenient and inexpensive e-book.
“O_O... it seems there's no limit in the joy of coding and thinking in #ruby”—Edoardo Rossi
“Working through @raganwald's combinator book. I WROTE A THRUSH! Love the book.”—Corey Haines
“I bought it a month ago and it is brilliant! It let me connect my functional PL class to Ruby.”—Zach Abbott
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Table of Contents
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- 0.1 The MIT License
- 0.2 Preface
- 1 Introduction
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2 Kestrels
- 2.1 Object initializer blocks
- 2.2 Inside, an idiomatic Ruby Kestrel
- 2.3 The Enchaining Kestrel
- 2.4 The Obdurate Kestrel
- 2.5 Kestrels on Rails
- 2.6 Rewriting “Returning” in Rails
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3 The Thrush
- 3.1 Let
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4 Songs of the Cardinal
- 4.1 Building a Cardinal in Ruby
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5 Quirky Birds and Meta-Syntactic Programming
- 5.1 A limited interpretation of the Quirky Bird in Ruby
- 5.2 Embracing the Quirky Bird
- 5.3 Andand even more
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6 Aspect-Oriented Programming in Ruby using Combinator Birds
- 6.1 Giving methods advice
- 6.2 The super keyword, perhaps you’ve heard of it?
- 6.3 The Queer Bird
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7 Mockingbirds
- 7.1 Duplicative Combinators
- 7.2 Recursive Lambdas in Ruby
- 7.3 Recursive Combinatorics
- 7.4 Recursive Combinators in Idiomatic Ruby
- 7.5 The Mockingbird
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8 Refactoring Methods with Recursive Combinators
- 8.1 Divide and Conquer
- 8.2 The Merge Sort
- 8.3 Separating Declaration from Implementation
- 8.4 Practical Recursive Combinators
- 8.5 Spicing things up
- 8.6 Building on a legacy
- 8.7 Seriously
- 8.8 Separating Implementation from Declaration
- 8.9 A Really Simple Recursive Combinator
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9 You can’t be serious!?
- 9.1 String to Proc
- 9.2 The Message
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10 The Hopelessly Egocentric Book Chapter
- 10.1 Object-oriented egocentricity
- 11 Bonus Chapter: Separating Concerns in Coffeescript using Aspect-Oriented Programming
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12 Appendix: Finding Joy in Combinators
- 12.1 Languages for combinatorial logic
- 12.2 Concatenative languages
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13 Appendix: Source Code
- 13.1 kestrels
- 13.2 thrushes
- 13.3 the cardinal
- 13.4 quirky birds
- 13.5 bluebirds
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14 About The Author
- 14.1 contact
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