November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
670 pages
17h 35m
English
Content preview from Learning Functional Programming in Go
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A magical structure
A functor can be thought of as a magical structure that can be mapped over, where the magical structure can be thought of as a shape with a constant set of elements accompanied by the ability to apply a transformation operation to each element.
Let's look at some examples.