Foreword
Functional Programming in Scala is an intriguing title. After all, Scala is generally called a functional programming language and there are dozens of books about Scala on the market. Are all these other books missing the functional aspects of the language? To answer the question it’s instructive to dig a bit deeper. What is functional programming? For me, it’s simply an alias for “programming with functions,” that is, a programming style that puts the focus on the functions in a program. What are functions? Here, we find a larger spectrum of definitions. While one definition often admits functions that may have side effects in addition to returning a result, pure functional programming restricts functions to be as they are in mathematics: ...
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