Scala Monads: Declutter Your Code With Monadic Design

Monads ~ “Design Pattern” in Functional Programming

Examples: “Option”, “Some”,…

What is a Monoid / Monad – in Scala Functional Programming

Monoid = an Algebraic structure (“Algebra” ) with: Associativity & Identity

Monad = Monoid + Endo-Functors

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SF Scala: Martin Odersky, Scala — the Simple Parts

Scala is a non-pure FP (Functional Programming) language with the Object-oriented feature, unlike the pure FP such as Haskell or Clojure (Lisp). It is popular in Android platform as an alternative to Java.