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Soar with Haskell

You're reading from   Soar with Haskell The ultimate beginners' guide to mastering functional programming from the ground up

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805128458
Length 418 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Basic Functional Programming FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Functions 3. Chapter 2: Algebraic Datatypes 4. Chapter 3: Recursion 5. Chapter 4: Higher-Order Functions 6. Part 2: Haskell-Specific Features
7. Chapter 5: First-Class Functions 8. Chapter 6: Type Classes 9. Chapter 7: Lazy Evaluation 10. Chapter 8: Input/Output 11. Part 3: Functional Design Patterns
12. Chapter 9: Monoids and Foldables 13. Chapter 10: Functors, Applicative Functors, and Traversables 14. Chapter 11: Monads 15. Chapter 12: Monad Transformers 16. Part 4: Practical Programming
17. Chapter 13: Domain-Specific Languages 18. Chapter 14: Parser Combinators 19. Chapter 15: Lenses 20. Chapter 16: Property-Based Testing 21. Index 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

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  1. Lists can be created with the syntax [e1,...,en] where e1,...,en is a comma-separated list of elements. The empty list is just written []. More primitive notation for constructing a composite list is (e:es), where e is the first element of the new list and es is an existing list that becomes the tail (or remainder) of the new list.

    Lists can be processed with a range of predefined list functions, with list comprehensions and with custom functions (see the next question).

  2. Functions over lists can be defined by pattern matching, just like for other ADTs. The typical form distinguishes two cases, that of the empty list [] and of the non-empty list (x:xs).
  3. ADT definitions are recursive when we mention the type we are defining in one or more of its constructors field types. They are processed, like ordinary ADTs, with pattern matching on the constructors. Usually the functions are recursive and make use of structural recursion (see the next question).
  4. In structural...
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