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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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The Lexical Workflow solution

Here's our entire ProcessCar workflow:

func ProcessCar(lineBase64 string) (err error, carJson string) {   step := Get(lineBase64)   step = Next(step, Base64ToBytes)   step = Next(step, BytesToData)   step = Next(step, TimestampData)   step = Next(step, DataToJson)   json, err := step(nil)   if err != nil {      Error.Error(err)   } else {      carJson = json.(string)   }   return}

How's that for clarity? Each step one after the next and error handling at the very end.

This Go idiomatic Monadic workflow solution needs a label, and because I thought of it first, its name is The Lexical Workflow. It's how we can do Monadic composition of impure components in Go. Lex means law, and since it controls and rules over our workflow, the name fits. ...
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