Monads
Understand the concept of monads in PHP functional programming and their foundational laws: left identity, right identity, and associativity. Learn how monads extend functors to manage context-rich computations, branching logic, and side effects, empowering you to compose and bind functions effectively within a monadic framework.
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Definition of monads
Monads are versatile functors built on top of polymorphic concepts, and complete a genealogy of type-classes. The versatility of monads is such that they allow programmers to write context-rich maps. With a monad, it is possible to compose branching logic (like that seen in the Maybe and Either sum types), computations (I/O-bound and CPU-bound ...