A Gleam project
gleam run # Run the project gleam test # Run the tests gleam shell # Run an Erlang shell
If available on Hex this package can be added to your Gleam project:
gleam add crow
and its documentation can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/crow.
PRESENTATION - Gleam is expressive
Gleam is fairly simple and in some ways syntax is less expressive than what can be found in erlang or elixir:
- Lack of literals
- Lack of branching options
- Lack of macro system
- No behaviour or protocol system
But is just as capable of modelling most problem domains:
- "Open" domain through types public types
- Constained set of operations through opaque types
- Api might be "flexible", next = gamestate -> next -> gamestate
- Api might be "precise", next = gamestate -> gamestate
May or not require assertion checks when depending on Result types
- Result types can be composed together
- But composition can also be achieved with pipes
- Or a custom mechanism to apply types or functions
We may add to this type through Generics.
TODO: Recover gamestate file here
pub type MoveError { NoPath OutOfBounds Blocked NoPiece }
pub fn move( in board: Board, from from: Position, to to: Position, ) -> Result(Board, MoveError) { try Nil = check_bounds(at: from, in: board) try Nil = check_bounds(at: to, in: board) try Nil = check_piece(at: from, in: board) try Nil = check_move(from: from, to: to, in: board) Ok(update(at: from, to: to, in: board)) }