For highly interactive applications such as games, Functional Reactive Programming is your friend: if you can formulate the properties of your game's world as time-varying values (and/or event streams), you are ready! These formulae will be sometimes even more natural and intent-revealing than mutating a state, e.g. for a moving ball, you can directly use the well-known law x = v * t. And what's better, the game's rules written such way compose better than object-oriented abstractions. For example, in this case, the ball's speed can be also a time-varying value, which depends on the event stream consisting of the ball's collisions. For more concrete design considerations, see Making Games in Elm.

Functional programming avoids state and emphasizes functionality. There's never any such thing as no state, though the state might actually be something that's immutable or baked into the architecture of what you're working with. Consider the difference between a static web server that just loads up files off the filesystem versus a program that implements a Rubik's cube. The former is going to be implemented in terms of functions designed to turn a request into a file path request into a response from the contents of that file. Virtually no state is needed beyond a tiny bit of configuration (the filesystem 'state' is really outside the scope of the program. The program works the same way regardless of what state the files are in). In the latter though, you need to model the cube and your program implementation of how operations on that cube change its state.

请记住:函数式语言是图灵完备的。因此，任何用命令式语言执行的有用任务都可以用函数式语言完成。最后，我认为混合方法是有意义的。像f#和Clojure(我确信还有其他语言)这样的语言鼓励无状态设计，但在必要时允许可变性。

使用一些创造性和模式匹配，无状态游戏被创造出来:

迷宫游戏 迷宫游戏2 CSSPlay:井字 纯CSS一字棋 CSSPlay:乒乓球 CSSPlay:乒乓球 CSSPlay:警察与强盗 CSSPlay: Whack-a-Rat CSS3 Pong:与CSS有关的疯狂事情

以及滚动演示:

随机英雄 动画模拟SVG时钟 动画SVG摆 动画SVG赛车手 CSS3:造雪

和可视化:

XSLT 曼德尔布洛特

For highly interactive applications such as games, Functional Reactive Programming is your friend: if you can formulate the properties of your game's world as time-varying values (and/or event streams), you are ready! These formulae will be sometimes even more natural and intent-revealing than mutating a state, e.g. for a moving ball, you can directly use the well-known law x = v * t. And what's better, the game's rules written such way compose better than object-oriented abstractions. For example, in this case, the ball's speed can be also a time-varying value, which depends on the event stream consisting of the ball's collisions. For more concrete design considerations, see Making Games in Elm.

这很简单。在函数式编程中，你可以使用任意多的变量……但前提是它们是局部变量(包含在函数中)。因此，只需将代码包装在函数中，在这些函数之间来回传递值(作为传递的参数和返回值)……这就是它的全部!

这里有一个例子:

function ReadDataFromKeyboard() {
    $input_values = $_POST[];
    return $input_values;
}
function ProcessInformation($input_values) {
    if ($input_values['a'] > 10)
        return ($input_values['a'] + $input_values['b'] + 3);
    else if ($input_values['a'] > 5)
        return ($input_values['b'] * 3);
    else
        return ($input_values['b'] - $input_values['a'] - 7);
}
function DisplayToPage($data) {
    print "Based your input, the answer is: ";
    print $data;
    print "\n";
}

/* begin: */
DisplayToPage (
    ProcessInformation (
        GetDataFromKeyboard()
    )
);