Functional Programming in a Dysfunctional World

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Post by simonraikallen » Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 5:25 AM UTC

Functional Programming in a Dysfunctional World
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Re: Functional Programming in a Dysfunctional World

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Post by simonraikallen » Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 5:26 AM UTC

Great little intro - with examples - into why functional programming is so good for correctness and testability without those nasty null pointer exceptions.

Re: Functional Programming in a Dysfunctional World

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Post by asmith1024 » Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 5:32 AM UTC

Looking forward to the book-length version. Take my money already.

Re: Functional Programming in a Dysfunctional World

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Post by loveyourwork » Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 6:04 AM UTC

looks like myob is a great place to work

Re: Functional Programming in a Dysfunctional World

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Post by hijiri » Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 6:47 AM UTC

Does anyone with a disqus account want to mention that the "Bool" in the type signature of isKey should be "Maybe Bool"?

Re: Functional Programming in a Dysfunctional World

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Post by hiroantagonist » Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 7:08 AM UTC

hijiri wrote: post #5

Does anyone with a disqus account want to mention that the "Bool" in the type signature of isKey should be "Maybe Bool"?

I'm afraid the type signature is correct. Please refer to the following gist.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/a0046e1ca87662a018f2

Re: Functional Programming in a Dysfunctional World

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Post by dang » Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 7:23 AM UTC

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