Re:The Kotlin Language: 1.0 Beta Is Here
by edgyswingset on Monday November 02, 2015 @02:10PM
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It's very limited. Many of the functions you use when operating with collections also return lists, not sequences.
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Re:The Kotlin Language: 1.0 Beta Is Here
by mike_hearn on Monday November 02, 2015 @04:07PM
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Sequence has much the same extensions available on it as other collections.
I did a tutorial a week or so ago (it's not online yet, unfortunately) on FP in Kotlin. We wrote a little app to do IntelliSense style autocompletion on an n-gram model. The core code was purely functional and used lazyness as well.
I suspect "does Kotlin support FP" is one of those questions that's doomed to turn into a no-true-scotsman thing: whatever support is available will be considered insufficient by true FP fans :-) But it's good enough to let you write code in a typical functional style in many cases, with little cost.