Articles in category: Functional programming
This year, Facile attended for the first time Lambda Days Conference in the beautiful polish city of Krakow.
It has been a two-days full immersion with speakers coming from all over the world.
The latest trends and academic research in the functional world were showcased, spanning from beginner’s approaches to functional languages to highly specific scientific applications.
This conference was totally worth attending, albeit very intense (sometimes mind-bending, actually!). All the talks…
Maintaining state is the main cause of complexity and headaches in software development: without a careful consideration of state, our projects will inevitably become impossible to understand. In fact, various development techniques and programming styles are mainly there to handle state in a responsible way: for example, monads, as used in functional programming, are often employed for this very task. A good general way of managing state is trying to make it immutable, either through the use…
Last time we looked at the Signal class, that is, a simple, reusable way of encapsulating the observer pattern. There are many use cases for a signal, and I’m going to show one possible application, spawned from a real-world problem. View controllers’ composition and decoupling is hard: we often need an input from a view controller, that has to send its input back to its creator, while handling the back navigation somehow. We often find ourselves in a situation in which several…
Last time we looked at a possible implementation for the Optional type in Objective-C; while the main point was to port to Objective-C a tool that’s frequently used in Swift, making use of the Optional class can be considered an application of a much more general concept: code reuse. In fact, Optional is not tied to a particular domain, and can be reused over and over again in multiple projects: that’s what actually happens in Swift. But, to think about it, that’s what happens…
L’ultima volta abbiamo visto una possibile implementazione del tipo Optional in Objective-C; l’obiettivo primario dell’articolo era quello di importare in Objective-C uno strumento frequentemente utilizzato in Swift, ma usare una classe come Optional può essere considerato un’applicazione di un concetto molto più generale: il riutilizzo del codice. In effetti, Optional non è legato a un particolare dominio, e può essere riutilizzato più e più volte in molti progetti:…
