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Soar with Haskell
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Soar with Haskell

by Tom Schrijvers
December 2023
Intermediate to advanced
418 pages
9h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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10

Functors, Applicative Functors, and Traversables

This chapter leads us much further into Haskell’s hierarchy of type classes for type constructors: functors, applicative functors, and traversables.

We will introduce the three abstractions in turn as a generalization of particular list-related functionality: mapping, zipping, and mapping with zipping. These list functions provide a good intuition for the mechanics of the generalizations. However, for applicative functors, the notion of effectful computations provides a much better and more important intuition.

Effectful computations are computations that do not only (or necessarily) produce a result. They also do or can do something additional (such as logging, failing, or changing a mutable ...

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