LENSES: COMPOSITIONAL DATA ACCESS AND MANIPULATION.
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Haskell lets you write beautiful, modular code. Rather than waffle generally, I’ll use this talk to look at a particular example, Edward Kmett’s lovely lens library.
Lenses have been called “jQuery for data types”: they give you a way to poke around in the guts of some large aggregate structure. Lenses compose (so you can make big lenses by gluing together little ones), and they exploit type classes to allow a remarkable degree of flexibility (get, set, fold, traverse, etc).
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LENSES: COMPOSITIONAL DATA ACCESS AND MANIPULATION.
Simon Peyton Jones
Simon Peyton Jones, MA, MBCS, CEng, graduated from Trinity College Cambridge in 1980. Simon was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard functional language Haskell, and is the lead designer of the widely-used Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). He has written two textbooks about the implementation of functional languages.