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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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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

The chain of responsibility

We looked at the command design pattern in Chapter 1, Grokking the Functional Way. There, the sender and executor are decoupled. Taking the idea further, we could have a pipeline of command objects that are linked together in a list. As in command, the sender submits a request. However, the request could be handled by any of the command objects in the pipeline.

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