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Hands-On Functional Programming in Rust

You're reading from   Hands-On Functional Programming in Rust Build modular and reactive applications with functional programming techniques in Rust 2018

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839358
Length 249 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Functional Programming – a Comparison FREE CHAPTER 2. Functional Control Flow 3. Functional Data Structures 4. Generics and Polymorphism 5. Code Organization and Application Architecture 6. Mutability, Ownership, and Pure Functions 7. Design Patterns 8. Implementing Concurrency 9. Performance, Debugging, and Metaprogramming 10. Assessments 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Functional Programming – a Comparison

  1. What is a function?

A function defines a transformation, accepts data, and returns the result of the transformation.

  1. What is a functor?

A functor defines data, accepts a transformation, and returns the result of the transformation.

  1. What is a tuple?

A tuple is a container of a fixed number of miscellaneous values.

  1. What control flow expression was designed for use with Enums?

Pattern matching expressions are a match for Enums, and vice-versa.

  1. What is the name for a function with a function as a parameter?

Functions of functions are called higher-order functions.

  1. How many times will fib be called in memoized fib(20)?

fib will be called 39 times. fib will be invoked 21 times.

  1. What datatypes can be sent over a channel?

Sent data must implement Send, which is usually derived by the compiler automatically.

  1. Why do functions need...
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