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Learn Type-Driven Development

Learn Type-Driven Development

By : Soumya Mukherjee, Amin, Kamon Ayeva
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Learn Type-Driven Development

Learn Type-Driven Development

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By: Soumya Mukherjee, Amin, Kamon Ayeva

Overview of this book

Type-driven development is an approach that uses a static type system to achieve results including safety and efficiency. Types are used to express relationships and other assumptions directly in the code, and these assumptions are enforced by the compiler before the code is run. Learn Type-Driven Development covers how to use these type systems to check the logical consistency of your code. This book begins with the basic idea behind type-driven development. You’ll learn about values (or terms) and how they contrast with types. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll cover how to combine types and values inside modules and build structured types out of simpler ones. You’ll then understand how to express choices or alternatives directly in the type system using variants, polymorphic variants, and generalized algebraic data types. You’ll also get to grips with sum types, build sophisticated data types from generics, and explore functions that express change in the types of values. In the concluding chapters, you’ll cover advanced techniques for code reuse, such as parametric polymorphism and subtyping. By end of this book, you will have learned how to iterate through a type-driven process of solving coding problems using static types, together with dynamic behavior, to obtain more safety and speed.
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Mutable parameterized types – ref and array

Reason also provides two important parameterized types that allow their values to be mutated in place. This mutability brings efficiency gains for certain types of algorithms, but generally needs to be used carefully because, as we'll see, it may be a source of bugs.

Managing a reference to a value

We've already seen an example of mutability, in the Mutable record fields section of Chapter 4, Grouping Values Together in Types. Sometimes, we need to manage just one or two mutable values, and we might not want to go through the ceremony of declaring a new record type with mutable fields. For these situations, we can take advantage of the built-in ref type. The ref...

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