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Functional Kotlin

You're reading from Functional Kotlin Extend your OOP skills and implement Functional techniques in Kotlin and Arrow

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788476485

Length 350 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Kotlin

Tools

Arrow

Concepts

Functional Programming

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

1. Kotlin – Data Types, Objects, and Classes FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with Functional Programming

3. Immutability - It's Important

4. Functions, Function Types, and Side Effects

5. More on Functions

6. Delegates in Kotlin

7. Asynchronous Programming with Coroutines

8. Collections and Data Operations in Kotlin

9. Functional Programming and Reactive Programming

10. Functors, Applicatives, and Monads

11. Working with Streams in Kotlin

12. Getting Started with Arrow

13. Arrow Types

14. Kotlin's Quick Start

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Index

Chapter 12. Getting Started with Arrow

Arrow (http://arrow-kt.io/) is a Kotlin library that provides functional constructs, datatypes, and other abstractions. Kotlin syntax is powerful and flexible, and Arrow takes advantage of it to offer features that don't come as standard.

Arrow is the result of combining the two most successful and popular functional libraries, funKTionale and Kategory, into one. In late 2017, both developer groups, fearing a split that would damage the whole Kotlin community, decided to join forces and create a single, unified functional library.

In this chapter, we'll cover how to use existing functions to build new and richer functions. Some of the topics that we'll cover are as follows:

Function composition
Partial application
Currying
Memoization
Pipes
Optics

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