node-lambdascript

Compile to javascript with syntaxic sugar for lambdas and other functional goodness

Motivation

The reasons for this (additional) compile to javascript language are:

• Fun! I too want to make my own language
• Getting rid of anonymous functions boilerplate for really short callbacks
• Have a go at simple lambda syntax for asynchronous callbacks
• Other stuff that I find useful when dealing with functional javascript

Lambdascript syntax

First of all, any valid javascript is valid also lambdascript.

lambdas

[1, 2, 3, 4]
  .map( x -> 2 * x )
  .reduce((r, x) -> {
    if (r < x) x+r
    else r-x 
  }, 0)

Under the hood, lambdascript only replaces the lambda with an anonymous function

Installation

npm install --save lambdascript

Usage

the most simple usage is

lambdascript my-script.λs -o my-script.js

This will compile my-script.λs to my-script.js.

It is also possible to pipe something in and get the compiled script out

cat my-script.λs | lambdascript | tee my-script.js

this should fit nicely in a transformation pipeline

Of course, you can also make a scripted use of lambdascript

var lambdascript = require('lambdascript');

var input = fs.readFileSync('./my-script.λs');
lambdascript(input, function (err, output) {
  fs.writeFileSync('./my-script.js', output);
});

Or you can use the streaming version of it

var lambdascript = require('lambdascript');

fs.createReadStream('./my-script.λs')
  .pipe(lambdascript())
  .pipe(fs.createWriteStream('./my-script.js'))

Test

Tests are written with mocha and covered with istanbul You can run the tests with npm test.

Contributing

Anyone is welcome to submit issues and pull requests

License

MIT

Copyright (c) 2014 Florent Jaby

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