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Ep 061: Transcendental Transformations
Functional Design in Clojure
English - December 27, 2019 15:00 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTechnology Education How To tech software design functional clojure immutable geek nerd development nate Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We unpack transducers and find a familiar pattern that enables freedom from collections.
Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.
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This week, the topic is: "Transducers." We unpack transducers and find a familiar pattern that enables freedom from collections.
Selected quotes:
"The humble sequence. It is a mighty abstraction."
"Your reducing function can get more abstract by passing in the reducing function that handles producing the result."
"This is mind-bending enough, it's worth saying again in a different way."
"We have a function that returns a function that returns a function!"
"The cool thing about reducing functions is that they're not about collections. They are about reduction."
Links:
Transducers - Reference
Transducers are Coming - Rich's introductory blog post
What are good use cases for transducers? - From the Clojure FAQ
Reducers, transducers and core.async in Clojure