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Haskell Cookbook

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Haskell Cookbook

Overview of this book

Haskell is a purely functional language that has the great ability to develop large and difficult, but easily maintainable software. Haskell Cookbook provides recipes that start by illustrating the principles of functional programming in Haskell, and then gradually build up your expertise in creating industrial-strength programs to accomplish any goal. The book covers topics such as Functors, Applicatives, Monads, and Transformers. You will learn various ways to handle state in your application and explore advanced topics such as Generalized Algebraic Data Types, higher kind types, existential types, and type families. The book will discuss the association of lenses with type classes such as Functor, Foldable, and Traversable to help you manage deep data structures. With the help of the wide selection of examples in this book, you will be able to upgrade your Haskell programming skills and develop scalable software idiomatically.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Creating lenses

In this recipe, we will look at how we can define a generic property getter and setter. We will write a data type and we will write a generic type that will achieve both getting and setting a field inside the data type.

How to do it...

  1. Create a new project creating-lenses, with a simple stack template:
        stack new creating-lenses simple
  1. Open src/Main.hs. We will be adding our source here. Define the Main module. Enable extension Rank2Types before the Main module. Also, add StandaloneDeriving and DerivingFunctor. We will use DerivingFunctor to automatically derive the Functor definition:
        {-# LANGUAGE Rank2Types, StandaloneDeriving, DeriveFunctor #-}
         module Main where
  1. Define a data...