Functional Programming in Java

Chapter 8. Advanced list handling

This chapter covers

• Speeding list processing with memoization
• Composing List and Result
• Implementing indexed access on lists
• Unfolding lists
• Automatic parallel list processing

In chapter 5, you created your first data structure, the singly linked list. At that point, you didn’t have at your disposal all the techniques needed to make it a complete tool for data handling. One particularly useful tool you were missing was some way to represent operations producing optional data, or operations that can produce an error. In chapters 6 and 7, you learned how to represent optional data and errors. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to compose operations that produce optional data or errors with lists.

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