February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
13h 46m
English
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Principles of Scala FP
Scala supports all FP features. However, it is not easy to cover them in a single chapter. So we will discuss only the following few important FP features in this chapter:
- Pure functions
- Immutability (Immutable data)
- Referential transparency
- Functions are first-class citizens
- Anonymous functions
- Higher-Order Functions (HOF)
- Currying
- Tail recursion
- Implicit
- Typeclasses