What's your take on Monads in php?

• Monad PHP

  2 294 0.0 PHP

  A simple Monad library for PHP

Looking at some libraries that implement monads (like monad-php), I feel a bit clunky using php's syntax, specifically because generics are not baked into the language (for example it's hard to know what you're binding to when you $o->bind(fn($whatIsThisExactly)=>...) ).

• catpaw-optional

  1 0 4.7 PHP

I was playing with the idea and in my own small world and it looks nice (to me), but I wonder if that's applicable in real use cases? I mean it would imply many other things, like the way one uses json_decode and pdo fetches.

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• fp

  2 57 7.0 PHP

  Utilities for functional tasks in PHP, especially pipelining (by Crell)

The much, much easier solution is to just write a lens helper, which I did for my Crell/fp helper library. It's basically a user-space pipe operator with a series of convenience functions, two of which look like this:

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