Reading Time: 4 minutes While exploring Cats I learned about Monads and its different instances available for use and now I’m here sharing all of that with you all. 😊 In today’s blog, we will be exploring Eval Monad in Cats. Model of Evaluation From the model of evaluation, I am referring to the way that the value will be evaluated. Generally, we have two of them i.e. Eager Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today we are going to explore Id Monad in Cats. If you don’t know about Monad I’ll suggest you go through this blog and then read this for better understanding. What is Id Monad? According to the referenced book: Id is actually a type alias that turns an atomic type into a single-parameter type constructor. Ahan! So, did you understand something? Let me explain it Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hey everyone, I’m back with another blog in which we are going to explore Either in Cats Library. For an introduction to Either Monad in Cats and comparison between Either in standard Scala Library and Cats Library, you can have a look at my previous blog i.e Either in Cats vs Either in Scala. Also, if you don’t know what is a Monad you can Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today we are going to deep dive into the Scala Cats again to find out about Monoids. If you haven’t already read my post about Diving into Scala Cats – Semigroups I suggest you do so now. What are Monoids? The Monoid extends Semigroup and adds a default or fallback value for the given type. Monoid type class comes with two methods – one is the combine method of Semigroups, Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hola amigos! Last time I discussed Monads in general and in Cats as well. In this blog, let’s have a look at one of the most known monad Either. I’ll be giving an introduction to it and also there will be a comparison between two i.e Either in Cats vs Either in Scala. What is Either? Either basically represents a value of one of two Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes Diving into Scala Cats – Semigroups
Reading Time: 3 minutes In Scala, we all have heard about Option, Future etc. I also heard that they are Monads. It was a new term to me so I googled it and the definitions I initially read were too confusing. Here is one of them : What is Monoid? What are Endofunctors? Looking into all these is so complex. So here, I’ll try to cover Monads in a Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you’re new to programming in Scala(like I am), you must have heard someone or the other talking about how awesome and powerful the case keyword, Partialfunction and pattern matching in Scala are. It got me wondering about why people love them that much. So, to unravel this mystery around case, I went on an adventure to find out all there is to know about them(And Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s surprisingly hard to find a consistent definition of functional programming. But I think you can define FP with just two statements: 1. FP is about writing software applications using only pure functions. 2. When writing FP code you only use immutable values. Hence, Functional programming is a way of writing software applications using only pure functions and immutable values. Now, let us understand the Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this blog, we are going to talk about Partially applied functions and its use case. Before starting, first, we will emphasize that though Partial functions and Partially applied functions sound similar they are different from each other. To understand Partial Functions refer. What is function application? Applying a function is called calling a function. When we pass all arguments of the function, we can Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the previous post, we had a look at the reasons behind the monads and how monads can help us design the programs in a functional style. Now we are going to explore some of the monads which are frequently used in the applications but not available within the Scala predefined libraries. We will be exploring the monads which are provided by the scala-cats functional Continue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes Monads in Functional Programming play an important role but they mostly confuse the beginners. One of the reasons for the confusion is that they mostly have a knowledge of imperative style programming, where they have no idea about function composition and its importance. In the terms of functional programming, the composition is the root where we have a set(Z) and we compose the elements of Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes In our previous blog Exception Handling – #2, we talked about how we can handle exception using Either. In this blog, we will explore further about Either, how we can elegantly handle exceptions using Either while working with Collections. We use collections when we want to perform some operations on elements. But what if something goes wrong while performing the transformation, do you have any Continue Reading
