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2023

Iterator syntax

A common pattern in functional programming is the traversal of data structures, particularly lists, in a specified order accumulating some values. If you've used languages like Haskell or OCaml, you must have come across the "fold left" (foldl) and "fold right" (foldr) higher-order functions which implement this pattern. These functions are also available in Juvix. In this blog post, I describe an iterator syntax I designed for Juvix which allows expressing folds (and maps, filters and more) in a readable manner.