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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 sets

In this recipe, we will work with a set and its APIs. A set is a container that stores unique ordered values.

How to do it...

  1. Create a new project working-with-set using the simple Stack template:
        stack new working-with-set simple
  1. In the project folder, open the working-with-set.cabal file. Add the new dependency containers in the subsection build-depends of section executable:
        executable working-with-set
          hs-source-dirs:      src
          main-is:             Main.lhs
         default-language:    Haskell2010
         build-depends:       base >= 4.7 && < 5
                            , Containers

The containers library is a commonly used library that implements...