The Joy of Kotlin

8 Advanced list handling

In this chapter

• Speeding list processing with memoization
• Composing List and Result
• Implementing indexed access on lists
• Unfolding lists
• Automatic parallel list processing

In chapter 5, you created your first data structure, the singly linked list. At that point, you didn’t have all the techniques needed to make this structure a complete tool for data handling. One particularly useful tool you were missing was some way to represent operations producing optional data or operations producing an error.

In chapters 6 and 7, you learned how to represent optional data and errors. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to compose operations that produce optional data or errors with lists. You also developed some functions that ...