Passing a function to an argument in Scala

Question

Is there any way to do something like argument.<keyword>(function) in Scala?

For example:

[1,2,3].supply(myFunc) yielding 6 if myFunc were the summation function.

It just seems easier to chain functions if I were able to do this, instead of calculating something and 'wrapping it' into an argument for a function call.

Answer 1

You can define it yourself if you want. It's frequently called the "pipe operator":

class AnyWrapper[A](wrapped: A) {
  def |>[B](f: A => B) = f(wrapped)
}
implicit def extendAny[A](wrapped: A): AnyWrapper[A] = new AnyWrapper(wrapped)

Then:

def plus1(i: Int) = i + 1
val fortyTwo = 41 |> plus1