Mapping Right and Wrong
Languages • May 2022
Mapping Right and Wrong
About
Mapping Right and Wrong
About

Let's dive a bit into the beautiful and symmetric structure of a type like Result or Either, and see how to handle failure in a more functional-programming-inspired way. We explore topics such as what 'flatMap' means for these types, or how right and wrong are just two symmetric ways to look at the operations.

Language
English
Level
Intermediate
Length
34 minutes
Type
online conference
About the speaker
About the speaker
Alejandro Serrano Mena
EngineerTweag
Alejandro is a trainer and software engineer specialized in functional programming. Before that, we was a PhD and lecturer at Utrecht University, working on compilers for functional languages. He has written three books, "Practical Haskell", "The Book of Monads", and "Haskell (Almost) Standard Libraries", and it's active in promoting functional programming and formal methods.
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Language
English
Level
Intermediate
Length
34 minutes
Type
online conference