Functional Pe(a)rls.

By osfameron from Italia.pm,London.pm,NorthWestEngland.pm,Edinburgh.pm
Date: Saturday, 29 November 2008 16:10
Duration: 20 minutes
Language:
Tags: evil fp functionalprogramming haskell hop sugar

You can find more information on the speaker's site:

• Abstract: http://greenokapi.net/blog/2008/12/01/functional-pearls-v2-now-with-monads-at-the-london-perl-workshop-2008/
• Talk: http://www.slideshare.net/osfameron/functional-pearls-version-2-presentation

Yes, functional programming is useful in Perl already but it isn't always pretty. I'll show a selection of techniques from FP languages, and also ways to make them pretty and Perlish. Including:

- lazy lists
- currying
- monads
- list comprehensions
- pattern matching
- functional IO

We'll use some shiny new Perl toys (like Devel::Declare) to help us get convenient syntax for these techniques.