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Scala Functional Programming Patterns

You're reading from   Scala Functional Programming Patterns Grok and perform effective functional programming in Scala

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783985845
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Atul S. Khot Atul S. Khot
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Preface 1. Grokking the Functional Way FREE CHAPTER 2. Singletons, Factories, and Builders 3. Recursion and Chasing your Own Tail 4. Lazy Sequences – Being Lazy, Being Good 5. Taming Multiple Inheritance with Traits 6. Currying Favors with Your Code 7. Of Visitors and Chains of Responsibilities 8. Traversals – Mapping/Filtering/Folding/Reducing 9. Higher Order Functions 10. Actors and Message Passing 11. It's a Paradigm Shift Index

Serving the curry


Duplicated code is a major code smell. We need to apply the extract method refactoring to remove this smell. For more information, refer to https://sourcemaking.com/refactoring/extract-method.

Instead of copying and pasting, we should reuse the code. One example of such code reuse is the template method design pattern. We have a common algorithm shell. This shell has blanks, that is, unspecified behavior. The blanks are filled with a specific behavior as needed. Too formal and pedantic? Let's come back to our real-world example and look at moms and their kids.

In our example, there are moms who have different professions. There are working moms, engineer moms, doctor moms, and teacher moms. All moms love their kids. This is the common part. However, an engineer mom will fix machines, design algorithms, and build houses. On the other hand, a doctor mom will perform surgeries, prescribe medicines to the patients, and take care of newborn babies. A teacher mom will teach children...

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