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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 Functors, Applicatives, and Monads

In this chapter, we will look at the following recipes:

  • Working with Functors
  • Binary tree as Functor
  • Working with Applicatives
  • Binary tree as Applicative
  • Working with monad
  • List as monad
  • Working with IO monad
  • Writing INI Parser:
    • Parser as Functor
    • Parser as Applicative
    • Parser as monad
  • Errors and exception handling