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Functional Kotlin

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Functional Kotlin

Overview of this book

Functional programming makes your application faster, improves performance, and increases your productivity. Kotlin supports many of the popular and advanced functional features of functional languages. This book will cover the A-Z of functional programming in Kotlin. This book bridges the language gap for Kotlin developers by showing you how to create and consume functional constructs in Kotlin. We also bridge the domain gap by showing how functional constructs can be applied in business scenarios. We’ll take you through lambdas, pattern matching, immutability, and help you develop a deep understanding of the concepts and practices of functional programming. If you want learn to address problems using Recursion, Koltin has support for it as well. You’ll also learn how to use the funKtionale library to perform currying and lazy programming and more. Finally, you’ll learn functional design patterns and techniques that will make you a better programmer.By the end of the book, you will be more confident in your functional programming skills and will be able to apply them while programming in Kotlin.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Combining FP with OOP


FP and OOP are both old age programming paradigms, having their set of benefits and disadvantages. For instance, it is difficult to strictly follow FP without any side effects and all pure functions, especially for beginners in FP and with complex project requirements. However, with OOP systems, it is difficult to avoid side effects; also, OOP systems are often termed as a nightmare for concurrent programs.

FP doesn't acknowledge state, whereas in real life, states cannot be avoided.

All these hassles can be avoided by using/combining OOP with FP. The most general style of mixing OOP and FP that has been professed can be summarized as functional in the small, object-oriented in the large. This is a simple and the most efficient idea of combining OOP with FP. This concept talks about using OOP at a higher level in your code, that is, in the modular architecture, and you can use OOP for classes and interfaces, while using FP at the lower level, that is, while writing methods...