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Swift Functional Programming

By : Nayebi

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Swift Functional Programming

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By: Nayebi

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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

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Getting Started with Functional Programming in Swift

Why functional programming matters

What is FP?

The Swift programming language

Summary

Functions and Closures

What is a function?

Syntax

Pure functions

Function types

First-class functions

Higher-order functions

Function composition

Closures

Function currying

Recursion

Memoization

Summary

Types and Type Casting

Kinds of types

Value versus reference types

Equality versus identity

Equatable and Comparable

Type checking and casting

Summary

Enumerations and Pattern Matching

Defining enumerations

Algebraic data types

Pattern matching

Summary

Generics and Associated Type Protocols

What are Generics and what kind of problems do they solve?

Type constraints

Generic data structures

Associated type protocols

Type erasure

Extending Generic types

Subclassing Generic classes

Generics manifesto

Summary

Map, Filter, and Reduce

Higher-kinded types

The map function

The flatMap method

The filter function

The reduce function

The apply function

The join function

Chaining higher-order functions

The zip function

Practical examples

Summary

Dealing with Optionals

Optional types

Unwrapping optionals

Guard

Implicitly-unwrapped optionals

Nil-coalescing

Optional chaining

Dealing with Optionals' functionally

Error handling

Summary

Functional Data Structures

Semigroups

Monoids

Trees

Lists

Stacks

Lazy lists

Summary

Importance of Immutability

Immutability

Immutable variables

Reference types versus value types

Benefits of immutability

Cases for mutability

An example

Copy constructors and lenses

Summary

Best of Both Worlds and Combining FP Paradigms with OOP

OOP paradigms

OOP design principles

POP

Functional reactive programming

Mixing OOP and FP

Summary

Case Study - Developing an iOS Application with FP and OOP Paradigms

Requirements

High-level design

Backend development

iOS application development

Summary

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Algebraic data types

Enumerations in Swift are actually algebraic data types that are types created by combining other types. Algebraic data types are essential to many functional programming languages, such as Haskell.

An algebraic data type is based on the idea of algebraic structures, which are a set of possible values and one or more operators to combine a finite number of these values into a single one. An example structure is (Z, +, -), a set of all integers (in math, Z refers to set of all positive and negative integer numbers) with the plus and minus operations on them.

So an algebraic data type is a data type that is created by algebraic operations, specifically, with sum and product as our operations.

Additionally, algebraic data types are composite data types that may contain multiple values such as a data type with multiple fields, or they may consist of variants or multiple finite different values.

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