Blog of Alexander Semenov

Structuring real-world code using monadic abstractions

In this article I present a simple relatively boilerplate-free approach to structuring Scala code using monadic abstractions. I use cats but it can be done using any other library, like Scalaz.

Introduction

Presented approach is nothing new but just well-known patterns used in a cohesive way. In a sense it tries to compete . . .

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April 22, 2017

Monads

...from programmer's perspective

What is a monad

Monad is a trait with the following operations:

Having such trait implementation for a type M makes it a monad instance.

Sometimes, pure is called return or point, whereas bind might instead be named flatMap (preferred in Scala) or >>= (Haskell's way). The method names are not so . . .

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Posted in: monadscala

October 14, 2015

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