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Learning Functional Programming in Go
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Learning Functional Programming in Go

by Lex Sheehan
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
670 pages
17h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Various intermediate and terminal functions 

Look at the various intermediate and terminal functions in the following functor diagram. They are all functors. When a function, for example, Map, is provided with a set of values as input, it will apply a transformation on the elements and produce output that will be a different set of values.

In functional programming, given the same input, a given function will always return the same result set.

In the first row of preceding functors, Map and Sort, take a collection, transform it in some way, and return a collection of equal size.

In the second row of functors, Filter and GroupBy, take a collection ...

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