Learning Functional Programming in Go

Monads, Type Classes, and Generics

Functional programming in Go:

“Not sure if it’s a good idea, but let’s try it anyway.”

"Fun to think about;  Not sure how to use it."

"The Y-Combinator is a theoretical concept with no practical value."

"Who can understand the code in this Monad package. Lambda what? Generics?"

Please put your prejudices aside, work through this chapter, and then ask yourself, How relevant is functional programming in Go?

Our goals in this chapter are as follows:

• Understand how a Monad works
• Learn how to compose functions using the bind operation
• Understand how the Success and Failure paths work
• Understand how a Monad deals with impure operations
• Work through a Monadic workflow implementation in Go
• Learn what Lambda Calculus ...