From the course: Advanced C#: Functional Programming Patterns
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Pipelining with extension methods - C# Tutorial
From the course: Advanced C#: Functional Programming Patterns
Pipelining with extension methods
There's another functional composition pattern called pipelining. It's more popular than the previous example I showed you, and it's what's used in places in .NET like LINQ. In fact, I predict, if you were to talk to a C# developer or some .NET developers and talk about functional composition, they would think we're talking about pipelining, not the other example. The way we're going to implement this is using extension methods. I have them in this extensions class. And here's the key. We're making this an extension method. And the first parameter, in this case, is an int. To make pipelining work, the return type from this method also has to be an int. And you'll see that that's the case in all of my pipeline methods. Now the code itself is exactly the same code that we saw in the previous video. I have one called ToFourthPower, which is taking the number and multiplying it by itself four times. I have a MakeNegative and I have AddTo. So once we've created these, mark them as static…
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