July 2023
Beginner to intermediate
488 pages
14h
English
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By the end of part 2, we were getting comfortable with considering data types in terms of their algebras—that is, the operations they support and the laws that govern those operations. Hopefully, you will have noticed that the algebras of very different data types tend to share certain patterns in common. In this chapter, we’ll begin identifying these patterns and taking advantage of them.
This chapter will be our first introduction to purely algebraic structures. We’ll consider a simple structure, the monoid,1 which is defined only by its algebra. Aside from satisfying the same laws, instances of the monoid interface may have little ...
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