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Re: Idea: Function composition to declare operating-system


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: Idea: Function composition to declare operating-system
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 16:11:33 +0200
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Hi Théo,

Théo Maxime Tyburn <theo.tyburn@gmail.com> skribis:

> I experimented on a functional approach to the operating
> system declaration. My goal was to be able to pass an operating-system
> instance to a composition of functions, modifying it one after another
> and returning the desired operating-system object. I find this approach
> more convenient because it allows for better segmentation of the system
> features. I achieved to make it work for the system declaration I
> usually use and I’d like to share it with you.

Neat!  In some cases, having “transformation” functions is clearer
indeed.  There’s a couple of them in the code, such as
‘virtualized-operating-system’, that make it easy to adapt an OS config
to a specific use case.

Thanks for sharing!

Ludo’.



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