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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)

Working with Traversal

In this recipe, we will work with traversals, where we can use lens for traversing many fields.

How to do it...

  1. Create a new project working-with-traversal with a simple stack template.
        stack new working-with-traversal simple
  1. Add a dependency on the lens library in the build-depends sub-section of the executable section. Also add containers, as we will be using Map in this recipe:
        executable working-with-traversal
         hs-source-dirs:      src
         main-is:             Main.hs
         default-language:    Haskell2010
         build-depends:       base >= 4.7 && < 5
                              , containers
                              , lens
  1. Open src/Main...