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About the Book

Deepen your Haskell knowledge, sharpen your functional programming skills, and just have fun with 25 functional programming puzzles to tie your brain in knots.


Challenge and exercise your functional programming knowledge by tackling these 25 fun, funky, and functional puzzles on Haskell programming topics like lazy evaluation, Haskell syntax, type classes, the type system, and popular libraries. Gain new insight into why Haskell is the way it is. Build mind-bending self-referential and circular data structures, unpick the seams of reality with unsafePerformIO, build enhanced DSLs with QualifiedDo, and roll back time with STM. Review or get introduced to Haskell's common quirks such as the unary minus and pattern guards while mastering newer language features up to GHC 9.12, including linear arrows and Or Patterns.


Employ powerful techniques and recognize common pitfalls as you solve fiendish puzzles across five different topic areas.


Don't sleep on the lazy evaluation puzzles: they'll challenge you to predict the behavior of programs that rely on laziness in unexpected ways. Think syntax and language extensions puzzles should be easy? Think again as you deal with the perversity of the unary minus operator, or puzzles based on new extensions like QualifiedDo. Prepare to be perplexed with Type Class puzzles on ad-hoc polymorphism, deriving strategies, and record fields. Want more? Try mixing classic ambiguous type puzzles with advanced new features like linear types. Want to read and debug more esoteric code and exotic language features? Then take on the Libraries puzzles, designed to challenge beginner and advanced readers as you peer into lenses, step into STM, and test the limits of your understanding with the singletons library.


After trying your hand at each puzzle, read through the solution to get more insight into key Haskell features, and use the references to build a reading list to dive deeper into new areas of the language.



Table of Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Lazy Evaluation
    • Looking for a Needle in a Stack of Infinities
    • Haskell for Very Full Stack Developers
    • Say Cheese
    • Diving Head First into a Bottomless Pit
    • The Least You Can Possibly Do
    • Do You Even Lift?
  • Syntax and Language Extensions
    • Oh Em Dash
    • Playing with Matches
    • Many Roads, One Destination
    • A View of the Future
    • FQDN - Fully Qualified Do Notation
  • Type Classes
    • Traversing Tuples
    • A Slightly Off-White Hat
    • If At First You Don’t Succeed, Trie, Trie Again
  • The Type System
    • Round Trip Tickets
    • A Grand Un-Unified Theory
    • Non-Functional Dependencies
    • Time Flies Like an Arrow
  • Popular Libraries
    • The Atomic Age
    • Setters, and Other Kinds of Dogs



About the Author :
Rebecca Skinner is the author of Effective Haskell, and a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience in Haskell and functional programming across industries including fintech, security, and data science. She currently volunteers as a member of the Haskell.org committee.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798888651902
  • Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers
  • Publisher Imprint: The Pragmatic Programmers
  • ISBN-10: 888865190X
  • Publisher Date: 24 Mar 2026


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