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Applied Functional Programming with Scala - Notes

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1. Mastering Functions

A function is a mapping from one set, called a domain, to another set, called the codomain. A function associates every element in the domain with exactly one element in the codomain. In Scala, both domain and codomain are types.

val square : Int => Int = x => x * x

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Recursion and Trampolines in Scala

Recursion is beautiful. As an example, let's consider this perfectly acceptable example of defining the functions even and odd in Scala, whose semantics you can guess:

def even(i: Int): Boolean = i match {
  case 0 => true
  case _ => odd(i - 1)
}

def odd(i: Int): Boolean = i match {