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Learning Functional Programming in Go

You're reading from   Learning Functional Programming in Go Change the way you approach your applications using functional programming in Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281394
Length 670 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lex Sheehan Lex Sheehan
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Pure Functional Programming in Go 2. Manipulating Collections FREE CHAPTER 3. Using High-Order Functions 4. SOLID Design in Go 5. Adding Functionality with Decoration 6. Applying FP at the Architectural Level 7. Functional Parameters 8. Increasing Performance Using Pipelining 9. Functors, Monoids, and Generics 10. Monads, Type Classes, and Generics 11. Category Theory That Applies 12. Miscellaneous Information and How-Tos

How to propose changes to Go

I am certain that Generics are not supported in Go (not even in Go 2.0), and as mentioned in the summary, I'm okay with that.

However, the feature that we'd benefit most greatly from, if Go had it, is Tail Call Optimization (TCO).

The first step - search specs

Is it possible that Go already supports TCO? Time to find out.

First, I looked at the Go language specification for any mention of a TCO feature (https://golang.org/ref/spec).

I found nothing about TCO.

Second step - Google search

Next, I did the requisite Google search, ...

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