表达模式匹配

时间:2011-06-11 20:08:35

标签: javascript pattern-matching

我有一个类似于this one的问题,除了使用Javascript而不是C#。

基本上,我希望能够对表达式进行模式匹配,而不是使用if语句的长列表,如下所示:

var person.annoyingAction = match([person.gender, person.ageGroup],
      [male, child], breakingStuff,
      [male, teenager], drivingRecklessly,
      [male, adult], beingLazyAfterComingHomeFromWork
      [female, child], screechingInAnUnbelievablyHighPitchedVoice,
      [female, teenager], knowingEverything,
      [female, adult], askingPeopleIfTheyThinkIAmTooFat
      [_, baby], cryingEveryTwoHoursAtNight,
      [_,_], beingHuman);

有人知道如何在Javascript中实现类似的功能吗?

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:1)

我不知道现有的,干净的解决方案,但这是一个简单的实现,与您的示例匹配:

var match = function(target) {
  for (i = 1; i < arguments.length; i += 2) {
    if (target[0] == arguments[i][0] && target[1] == arguments[i][1]) {
      return arguments[i + 1];
    }
  }
}

使用示例:

var result = match(["Yellow", "Food"],
  ["Red", "Food"], "Apple",
  ["Green", "Plant"], "Grass",
  ["Yellow", "Thing"], "Schoolbus",
  ["Yellow", "Food"], "Banana",
  ["Yellow", "Foot"], "Bad"
)

alert(result) # displays "Banana"

在JavaScript中,您无法直接比较数组([1, 2] != [1, 2]),因此您需要单独比较这些元素。