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Every Argument for Static Typing Applies to Typed Errors

Think of all the arguments you've heard as to why static typing is desirable — every single one of those arguments applies equally well to using types to represent error conditions.

An odd thing I’ve observed about the Scala community is how many of its members believe that a) a language with a sophisticated static type system is very valuable; and b) that using types for error handling is basically a waste of time. If static types are useful—and if you like Scala, presumably you think they are—then using them to represent error conditions is also useful.

Here's a little secret of functional programming: errors aren't some special thing that operate under a different set of rules to everything else. Yes, there are a set of common patterns we group under the loose heading "error handling", but fundamentally we're just dealing with more values. Values that can have types associated with them. There's absolutely no reason why the benefits of static ty

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Balaji Sivaraman @balajisivaraman_twitter

Hi all, I need some help understanding a piece of Doobie code from the examples. It is the StreamingCopy one: (https://github.com/tpolecat/doobie/blob/series/0.4.x/yax/example/src/main/scala/example/StreamingCopy.scala). I am using a modified version of the fuseMap2 example from that file. Here’s how I’ve modified it for my requirements:

  def fuseMap[F[_]: Catchable: Monad, A, B](
      source: Process[ConnectionIO, A],
      sink: Vector[A] => ConnectionIO[B],
      delete: ConnectionIO[Unit]
  )(
 sourceXA: Transactor[F],

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