From the course: Advanced C#: Functional Programming Patterns
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Monads, currying and other terms - C# Tutorial
From the course: Advanced C#: Functional Programming Patterns
Monads, currying and other terms
There are some other terms you'll see in functional programming. Monads serve as a powerful abstraction for managing side effects while maintaining the purity of functions. They allow us to handle actions like logging, error handling, or state changes in a structured and composable way. Currying is the process of transforming a function that takes multiple arguments into a sequence of functions, each taking a single argument. A functor in functional programming is a structure that can be mapped over, meaning you can apply a function to the values inside it without changing the structure itself. For example, if you have a list of numbers, you can use a functor to apply a function to each number in the list, creating a new list with the results. Pattern matching is a mechanism for checking a value against a pattern and binding variables to successful matches. This is often used in recursive functions. Lazy evaluation is a strategy where expressions are not evaluated until their values…
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