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Functional Programming

Common and Useful Functions

(syntax is scala, search for Rust/Python equivalents)

Lists

• flatten : turn a list of lists into a singular, flat list
• map : turn a list of objects into a list of a certain attribute of all of the objects
• flatmap : map an object, then flatten the resulting list of lists
• filter : filter a list of objects by an attribute

Sources

• Grokking Functional Programming by Michal Plachta