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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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A note about composition naming conventions in Go

In Go, we don't have the luxury of renaming a function name with the . symbol or a way to easily convert a function call that looks like compose(f, g) to one that looks like g compose f, much less one that looks like g . f. But no worries! We'll just use the following naming convention to represent a compose function: Emphasize_Humanize (which reads, g . f, where g is Emphasize and f is Humanize). Typically, a camelcased symbol would look like EmphasizeHumanize, but with the _ separating the camel humps, it's obvious that this a special symbol.

Here's main.go:

package mainimport (   "fmt"   . "compose")func main() {   fmt.Println("A to B - Humanize(true):", Humanize(true))   fmt.Println("B to C - ...
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