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turn into [ "66" ] using Object.keys(). The fact that our number is now a
string is luckily not a problem for String.fromCharCode (it will implicitly
call .valueOf()).
Chaining this all together allows us to write the following $chr function:
;; A convoluted way to call String.fromCharCode on a single number.
(func $chr (param $c i32) (result externref)
(local $tmp externref)
;; This is just a way to get an array with one element,
;; so groupBy invokes the callback just once.
(call $getOwnPropertyNames (call $values (global.get $prototype)))
(local.set $tmp) ;; [ 'length' ]
;; First we call Object.groupBy() on a single-element array, with a
;; callback that returns a fixed value ($c), to create an object with
;; just that key. For example, for 66 we'd obtain { "66": ["length"] }
(local.get $c)
(global.set $g_val_i)
(call $groupBy_i (local.get $tmp) (ref.func $return_val_i))
;; Then, we call String.fromCharCode on it by passing e.g. [ "66" ]
;; (the result of Oject.keys()) to Object.groupBy()
(call $groupBy_e
(call $keys)
(global.get $String_constructor_fromCharCode)
)
;; Now Object.keys() gives ['A\x00'], so we do _[0][0] to get just 'A'
(call $keys)
(i32.const 0)
(call $array_get_nth_element)
(i32.const 0)
(call $array_get_nth_element)
)
----[ 5.5 Accumulating into a string
With individual character-strings now available to us, we need a way to
concatenate them. The first step is a method of accumulating characters
into a list. For this, we can use the merge primitive provided by
Object.assign():
> Object.assign({"foo":"bar"}, {"lorem": "ipsum"})
{ foo: 'bar', lorem: 'ipsum' }
We'll assign each character to a unique, incrementing key (property name),
accumulating them on a single object (though, each value will be wrapped in
an array):
;; Adds $value to obj, under a new unique (incrementing) key
;; This is so we can accumulate values with unique incrementing keys on
;; an object, used to build an array later.
(func $add_value_to_obj (param $obj externref) (param $value externref)
(local $tmp externref)
;; Create a new object ($tmp) which has just a single property with a
;; controlled value ($value) and a unique key (the return value of the
;; callback tells Object.groupBy what property name to use)
(call $groupBy_i (local.get $value) (ref.func $return_incr_ctr))
(local.set $tmp)
;; Use Object.assign() to add the property to $obj
(call $assign (local.get $obj) (local.get $tmp))
)
After calling this multiple times, this will result in an object such as:
{
'1': [ 'H' ],
'2': [ 'e' ],
'3': [ 'l' ],
'4': [ 'l' ],
'5': [ 'o' ]
}
Which we then turn into a list with Object.values()
[ [ 'H' ], [ 'e' ], [ 'l' ], [ 'l' ], [ 'o' ] ]
How is this useful to us? Well:
> String.raw({raw:[['H'],['e'],['l'],['l'],['o']]})
'Hello'
This function is normally used under the hood with raw template literals,
but it is perfect for our use-case. Its argument should be an object
containing a "raw" property with the array of string-parts to concatenate.
The fact that each element is wrapped in an array by itself is no problem:
the implicit .toString() will strip them:
> ['A'].toString()
'A'
Obtaining a reference to String.raw() is done in the same way we obtained
String.fromCharCode(), and creating the argument object is again possible
with Object.groupBy() and a custom callback: