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Swift Functional Programming

Swift Functional Programming

By : Nayebi
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Swift Functional Programming

Swift Functional Programming

4.3 (3)
By: Nayebi

Overview of this book

Swift is a multi-paradigm programming language enabling you to tackle different problems in various ways. Understanding each paradigm and knowing when and how to utilize and combine them can lead to a better code base. Functional programming (FP) is an important paradigm that empowers us with declarative development and makes applications more suitable for testing, as well as performant and elegant. This book aims to simplify the FP paradigms, making them easily understandable and usable, by showing you how to solve many of your day-to-day development problems using Swift FP. It starts with the basics of FP, and you will go through all the core concepts of Swift and the building blocks of FP. You will also go through important aspects, such as function composition and currying, custom operator definition, monads, functors, applicative functors,memoization, lenses, algebraic data types, type erasure, functional data structures, functional reactive programming (FRP), and protocol-oriented programming(POP). You will then learn to combine those techniques to develop a fully functional iOS application from scratch
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In our day-to-day application development, we encounter situations where we expect to receive a value but we do not receive it. For instance, suppose that we have a list of items and we need to search for a particular value in the list. The particular value that we are looking for might not be on the list. Other examples can be calling a web service and receiving a JSON payload without the fields that we are looking for, or querying a database and not receiving the expected values.

What are we going to receive when the value is not there, and how will we handle this absence?

In programming languages such as C, it is possible to create a variable without giving it a value. If we try to use the variable before assigning a value, we would get an undefined value.

In Swift, we can define a variable without giving it a value, but we cannot use it without assigning some value to it. In other words, we need to initialize it before being able to use it. This feature of Swift ensures that...

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