Chapter 3. Functional programming primer
This chapter covers
- Core functional programming principles
- Practical tools for working with immutable state and data structures
Before going further into the realm of Play, let’s take a detour and talk about a few functional programming fundamentals at the core of asynchronous programming in Scala. If you’re already familiar with functional programming concepts and their application in Scala, you may want to skip over this chapter or skim through it quickly. If you’re a newcomer to functional programming, this chapter will help you get up to speed with the most important principles and tools that you’ll need to understand and write asynchronous code in Scala.
3.1. A few words on functional programming ...
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