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Alexey Soshin
Alexey Soshin
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Alexey Soshin

Alexey Soshin is a software architect with 18 years of experience in the industry. He started exploring Kotlin when Kotlin was still in beta, and since then has been a big enthusiast of the language. He's a conference speaker, published writer, and the author of a video course titled Pragmatic System Design
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Algebraic data types

Algebraic Data Types (ADTs), a concept from functional programming, share similarities with the Composite design pattern, as we explored in Chapter 3, Understanding Structural Patterns.

ADTs offer a solution for modeling intricate data structures and behaviors in a succinct and expressive manner. They establish a structured and type-safe representation of data, enhancing the comprehension of programs and ensuring correctness. By amalgamating simple data types and operations, ADTs empower the creation of elaborate data structures that faithfully portray the modeled domain. They contribute to type safety by enabling developers to precisely define the nature of data each type represents, thereby reducing the likelihood of runtime errors stemming from type mismatches and providing compile-time assurances regarding the correctness of data operations. ADTs also streamline pattern matching, a potent mechanism for dissecting and manipulating data based on its inherent...

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Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805127765

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Alexey Soshin

Alexey Soshin is a software architect with 18 years of experience in the industry. He started exploring Kotlin when Kotlin was still in beta, and since then has been a big enthusiast of the language. He's a conference speaker, published writer, and the author of a video course titled Pragmatic System Design
Read more about Alexey Soshin