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Haskell Design Patterns
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Haskell Design Patterns

by Ryan Lemmer
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced
166 pages
3h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 6. Patterns of Generic Programming

In this chapter, we seek a unified view of "Generic Programming", which comes in many guises; hence the statement,

 

"Genericity is in the eye of the beholder"

 
 --Jeremy Gibbons, Datatype-Generic Programming

We start with a broad perspective by reviewing Jeremy Gibbons' patterns of generic programming—many of which we have already encountered. Then we shift focus to one of the patterns—datatype-generic programming—which is characterized by generic functions parameterized by the shape of the datatype instead of the content.

To get a taste of datatype-generic programming, we'll sample three basic approaches: the sum of products, origami programming, and scrap your boilerplate.

Along the way, we'll encounter ...

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