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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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Monadic list functions

The thing to remember with lists is that they model non-determinism. A list of values a represents a number of different possibilities for the value of a.

Function

Description

filterM

Used in place of filter inside a monad, as follows:  

filterM :: Applicative m => (a -> m Bool) -> [a] -> m [a]

foldM

Used in place of foldl where monadic computations built from a list are bound left-to-right, as follows:  

foldM  :: (Monad m, Foldable t) => (b -> a -> m b) -> b -> t a -> m b

join

Used to flatten the nesting of groups, as follows:

> join [[[1]]] [[1]]  > join [[1]] [1]join :: Monad m => m (m a) -> m a

msum

A list based concat function that is best described by the following example:

> msum [Nothing, ...
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