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Map a domain object into a range object via operator(). More...
#include <Functional.h>
Public Member Functions | |
virtual | ~Functional () |
Destructor. | |
virtual Range | operator() (const Domain &x) const =0 |
Map a Domain x into a Range y value. |
Map a domain object into a range object via operator().
Public interface
The term ``Functional'' was chosen to follow the usage in Barton and Nackman's ``Scientific and Engineering C++.''
A Functional<Domain,Range>
is an abstract base class which encapsulates the mapping of an object of type Domain
into an object of type Range
. This operation is invoked via operator() to make it look like a function call.
While these functions are function-like
, there is no guarantee that evaluations of the same parameter will yield the same result (the implementor of a particular class could, for example, merely choose to emit a random number). However implementors of Functional
classes are strongly encouraged to implement (visible) side-effect free semantics in their classes.
A Functional
object is used in circumstances similar to those in which a function pointer could be used. An advantage of the Functional
objects is that it is possible to have more than one of them at the same time. Another potential advantage (not yet implemented) is that it will be possible to perform functional composition at run time, e.g. a=b+c where a,b, and c are Functionals
. Another advantage is that since the Functional implementations will in general be templated, the same source code would yield instantiations for all the numeric types and for specializations like automatic derivatives.
To be of greatest utility, a library of functions that do mathematics, plotting, etc. on Functional objects needs to be developed.
The following simple example shows how you can write a function that uses a Functional object.
Double integrate1D(const Functional<Float,Float> &f, Double x1, Double x2, Double dx) { uInt n = (xend - xstart) / dx; Double sum = 0.0; for (uInt i=0; i < n; i++) sum += f(x1 + i*dx) * dx; return sum; }
Obviously this isn't a very serious algorithm!
The specific application that caused the implementation of these Functional
classes was the creation of the Fitting module, which needed classes to represent the fitting functions.
clone()
function is needed at this level. Definition at line 122 of file Functional.h.
virtual casa::Functional< Domain, Range >::~Functional | ( | ) | [virtual] |
Destructor.
virtual Range casa::Functional< Domain, Range >::operator() | ( | const Domain & | x | ) | const [pure virtual] |
Map a Domain x
into a Range y
value.
Implemented in casa::ArraySampledFunctional< T >, casa::SampledFunctional< Range >, casa::ScalarSampledFunctional< T >, and casa::SampledFunctional< T >.