Monads & Functional Abstractions

In functional programming, we often want to encapsulate common patterns of computation or manage effects in a structured way. This is where functional abstractions come in.

They help us write cleaner, more robust code by providing a consistent interface for operations that might otherwise be messy.

Imagine you have a series of functions. What if one of them might return nil? Or perhaps it might fail with an error? Traditional approaches often involve:

• Lots of if-nil checks
• Throwing exceptions

These can clutter your code and make it harder to reason about.