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.

• Nicholas Clark
• Gianni Ceccarelli (‎dakkar‎)
• osfameron
• David Cantrell (‎DrHyde‎)
• Adam Trickett (‎ajt‎)
• Tim Bunce
• Matthew Black
• Joel Bernstein (‎joel‎)
• Aaron Trevena (‎TEEJAY‎)
• Michele Beltrame (‎arthas‎)
• Stan Sawa
• Przemyslaw Kuznicki (‎Tom‎)
• Alistair MacLeod (‎anm‎)
• Peter Haworth (‎pmh1wheel‎)
• Jonathan Moore
• Ian Norton (‎idn‎)
• Adrian White
• Neil Hemingway (‎neilh‎)
• Rafiq Gemmail (‎Raf‎)