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Hands-On Reactive Programming with Clojure - Second Edition
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Hands-On Reactive Programming with Clojure - Second Edition

by Konrad Szydlo, Leonardo Borges
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
298 pages
7h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Monads

Our last abstraction will solve the very problem that we raised in the previous section—how to safely perform intermediate calculations by preserving the semantics of the abstractions that we're working with (in this case, options).

It should be no surprise by now that fluokitten also provides a protocol for monads, simplified and shown as follows:

(defprotocol Monad (bind [mv g])) 

If you think in terms of a class hierarchy, monads would be at the bottom of it, inheriting from applicative functors, which, in turn, inherit from functors. That is, if you're working with a monad, you can assume that it is also an applicative and a functor.

The bind function of monads takes a function, g, as its second argument. This function receives ...

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