Learning to Read

What’s the reader monad and what’s a Kleisli arrow? Why do they have the same implementation but go by two different names? And why should I care?

We will answer this by exploring the conceptual and practical differences of readers and kleislis. Expect to see simple real world code that demonstrate the power of both constructs.

This is an introductory talk for those getting started with functional programming and/or Scala.

Session length

40 minutes

Language of the presentation

English

Target audience

Beginner: No need to have prior knowledge

Who is your session intended to

This is an introductory talk for those getting started with functional programming and/or Scala.

Speaker

Andy Scott (Humanoid Extraordinaire @ Stripe)