Chapter 8. Operational primitives

This chapter covers

  • Interfacing FRP code with the rest of your program
  • Lazy values
  • Transactions
  • Getting a stream from a cell
  • Spawning new transactional contexts
  • The question of scalable addressing

Cue some soft music as we reflect that you now have a good grounding in the 10 primitives that form the conceptual core of FRP: map, merge, hold, snapshot, filter, lift, never, constant, sample, and switch. Together they create a perfect world where everything is harmonious and wonderful.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzrrrrrrrrppppppppp! (That’s the sound of ripping a record off a record player.) Certain issues dwell at the fringe of the FRP design space and don’t quite fit. This chapter is about those and how to deal with ...

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