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Swift Functional Programming

Swift Functional Programming

By : Nayebi
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Swift Functional Programming

Swift Functional Programming

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By: Nayebi

Overview of this book

Swift is a multi-paradigm programming language enabling you to tackle different problems in various ways. Understanding each paradigm and knowing when and how to utilize and combine them can lead to a better code base. Functional programming (FP) is an important paradigm that empowers us with declarative development and makes applications more suitable for testing, as well as performant and elegant. This book aims to simplify the FP paradigms, making them easily understandable and usable, by showing you how to solve many of your day-to-day development problems using Swift FP. It starts with the basics of FP, and you will go through all the core concepts of Swift and the building blocks of FP. You will also go through important aspects, such as function composition and currying, custom operator definition, monads, functors, applicative functors,memoization, lenses, algebraic data types, type erasure, functional data structures, functional reactive programming (FRP), and protocol-oriented programming(POP). You will then learn to combine those techniques to develop a fully functional iOS application from scratch
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Function composition


In the previous section, we saw an example of higher-order functions that could accept two different functions and execute them in a predefined order. This function was not so flexible in the sense that it would break if we wanted to combine two accepted functions differently. Function composition can solve this issue and make it even more flexible. To present this concept, we will examine an example of non-functional composition first, and then we will introduce functional composition.

Suppose that, in our application, we need to interact with a backend RESTful API and receive a String value that contains a list of prices in order. The backend RESTful API is being developed by a third-party and is not designed properly. Unfortunately, it returns a String with numbers in it separated by commas, as follows:

"10,20,40,30,80,60" 

We need to format the content that we receive before using it. We will extract elements from String and create an array, and then we will append...

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