This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Agile Buzz by Oliver Steele. Original Post: Functional Javascript 1.0.2 Feed Title: Oliver Steele on Software Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/osteele Feed Description: Languages of the real and artificial. Latest Agile Buzz Posts Latest Agile Buzz Posts by Oliver Steele Latest Posts From Oliver Steele on Software

Thanks to everyone who has commented or contributed, praised or pitched in — I’ve released an update to Functional Javascript, with these changes:

New features

- Rhino compatibility. (Credit: Reginald Braithwaite)

Optimizations

- More efficient Array.slice. (Credit: Dean Edwards)
- Memoize Function.lambda. (Credit: henrah)

Packaging changes

- Added jsmin version. With jsmin and gzip, the file is 2.5K.
- Moved string lambdas to a separate file, to-string.js. (Both files are included in the jsmin version.)
- Reformatted for new version of the doc tool.

Compatibility notes

If you were including ‘functional.js’ before, now you need to include both ‘functional.js’ and ‘to-function.js’ in order to get the string lambda conversion functions too. Or you can include functional.min.js, which is smaller and includes them both.

The fact that functional.js itself no longer contains any regular expression might make it usable in Flash. I haven’t actually tried this, because the only Flash I use is OpenLaszlo, which is stuck at the pre-JIT Flash 8. I don’t dare program at too high a level in Flash 8 because of performance concerns.

Meanwhile, over in Ruby…

I’ll also put in a plug here for Braithwaite’s String#to_proc, which is a port of string lambdas to Ruby. Ruby is my favorite server-side glue language; I look forward to using it there…