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This library provides a functional-programming core library: Endofunk.FX, that adds many of the data types needed for exploiting a functional programming style in your codebase; more data types will be added in due course.

Functional Data Types

The following is an incompete list of the functional data types included in Endofunc.FX.

Type Overview
Identity The Identity type is a trivial type to access functor, monad, applicative functor, etc. algebras.
Maybe The Maybe type encapsulates an optional value. A value of type Maybe a either contains a value of type a (represented as Just a), or it is empty (represented as Nothing)
Either The Either type encapsulates a logical disjunction of two possibilities: either Left or Right.
Result The Result type is similar to the Either type except that the left disjunction is fixed to capture of a C# Exception.
Validation The Validation data type is isomorphic to Either, but has an instance of Applicative that accumulates on the error side.
Reader The Reader type (also called the Environment monad). Represents a computation, which can read values from a shared environment, pass values from function to function, and execute sub-computations in a modified environment.
State The State monad wraps computations in the context of reading and modifying a global state object.
Coyoneda The Coyoneda is a contravariant Functor suitable for Yoneda reduction.
Yoneda The yoneda is a covariant Functor suitable for Yoneda reduction.
Tagged The Tagged union type is comparable to Swift enums with generically associated values.
Store The Store is modelled on the Redux concept.
Reducer The Reducer is modelled on the Redux concept.
Subscriber The Suscriber is modelled on the Redux concept.
Action The Tagged type fulfills the role of the Action in the Redux concept.
Lazy The Lazy type extends the existing Microsoft Lazy type with functor, monad, applicative functor algebras.
Lens Functional getter and setter for product types.
Prism Functional getter and setter for sum types.

All types support Functor, Applicative Functor and Monad; with monadic lifters, applicative lifters, Kleisli monadic composition, Linq, Traverse and Sequence.

Further enhancements and functional syntactic sugar has been incorporated in a Endofunc.FX.Prelude static class to simplify general use of the functional data types.

Nu-get

Nu-get package Description
Endofunk.FX All of the core data types and functional ‘prelude’.
Endofunk.Data Functional wrapper for SQLClient and SQLite (WIP)
Endofunk.Net Functional wrapper for System.Net (WIP)

License

License.md

Future Plans

This documentation is a work in progress and will be significantly enhanced as part of the firming up of the API, the data types and the usage examples for each data type.

Secondly we have a goal to provide existing functional API wrappers frequently used .NET Core functonality; Endofunc.Net and EndoFunc.Data are the first two functional API wrapperss for Web, SQLite and SqlClient connections respectively.

Examples will be added in due course to demonstrate how these APIs can be used to simplify and crash proof your code without sacrificing features.