Functional Thinking

Index

Symbols

4GLs (fourth-generation programming languages), Context Versus Composition

A

Abstract Factory design pattern, Improving Dispatch with Groovy, Clojure Multimethods and a la carte Polymorphism

Abstract Syntax Tree (AST), Lazy Field Initialization

abstractions

benefits of higher-level, Functional Processing

benefits of layers, Iteration to Higher-Order Functions

composable vs. contextual, Context Versus Composition

Access projects, Context Versus Composition

accumulators, Fold/Reduce

ACID (Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable), CQRS

aliquot sum, Case Study: Number Classification

anonymous inner classes, Closures

B

BASE (Basically Available, Soft state, Eventual), CQRS

Bini, Ola, Functional Pyramid

Bloch, Joshua, Architecture

bytecode, Ceding Control to the Language/Runtime

C

caching

caching everything, Caching everything

caching sum, Caching sum

function-level, Memoization

intraclass, Method-level caching

method-level, Method-level caching

case classes, Scala pattern matching

catamorphism, Fold/Reduce

Clojure

built-in list-comprehension, Few Data Structures, Many Operations

currying/partial application in, In Clojure

filter variants in, Clojure

fold/reduce variants in, Clojure

functional programming example in, Functional Processing

laziness in, Benefits of Laziness

map operation in, Map

map variants in, Clojure

memoization in, Adding Memoization

multimethods/polymorphism in, Clojure Multimethods and a la carte Polymorphism

optimization for maps, Few Data Structures, Many Operations

parallel processing in, ...