Functional design patterns

Martin McBride, 2019-09-28
Tags closure design pattern
Categories functional programming

This article is part of a series on functional programming.

There are several design patterns that are often used with functional programming, although they are not all exclusive to the FP paradigm.

• Closures are a flexible way to create new functions from existing functions. They can be used to implement partial functions, composition and currying, among other uses.

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If you found this article useful you might be interested in my ebook Functional Programming in Python.

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functional programming

1. Contents
2. Introduction
3. Functions
4. - Pure functions
5. Iterators
6. - Iterators vs iterables
7. - Built-in functions on iterables
8. - Transforming iterables
9. - Map/reduce example
10. - Generators
11. Functional design patterns
12. - Recursion
13. - Partial application
14. - Closures
15. Monads
16. - Failure monad
17. - List monad
18. - Maybe monad

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2. Functional Programming in Python
3. Computer graphics (PyCairo)

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