Principles, Best Practices and Design Patterns for functional programming

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amit-agrawal picture amit-agrawal · May 9, 2009 · Viewed 9.3k times · Source

Are there any known principles, best-practices and design patterns that one can follow while writing code in a functional programming language?

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fishlips picture fishlips · May 9, 2009

There are folds, unfolds, maps, etc.

I consider using them best practice, as it is pretty easy to reason about their behavior, and they often communicate the purpose of a function (for an example, just take a look at the famous Evolution of a Haskell Programmer and contrast freshman with senior, and with professor).

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