Pragmatic Type-Level Design (PTLD E-Book)
Pragmatic Type-Level Design
Practical introduction into Haskell types: design principles, design patterns, methodologies, approaches
About the Book
Pragmatic Type-Level Design is a book about programming in types, about the discipline of Software Design, lifted onto the level of types, and about type-level approaches useful in real practice.
This is my second fundamental book about Software Design in Haskell, in addition to Functional Design and Architecture (First Edition, 100% ready; Second Edition with Manning, WIP).
The main goal of this book is to be the best source of knowledge, well-written and well-structured. I’m not only talking about type-level features but providing a reasoning framework for making the narrative complete and comprehensive. The central philosophy of this book - pragmatism - is used to build a practice-first methodology on how to approach types and do not drown in the related complexity. The type-level design is difficult on its own, type-level Haskell features are difficult as well, and there is no need in raising the learning bar even more.
The book will be useful for Haskellers who want to start doing real things on the type level and who are scared out by the academism-styled materials.
If you liked my FDaA book, you’ll find PTLD quite enlightening and complementary to it.
Book completion estimation: mid of 2023
Book topics:
type-level design
type-level eDSLs
complexity of solutions
type-level Haskell features
Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection
domain modeling
type-level functional interfaces
design of business logic
interaction with impure subsystems
testing
GitHub repo: Pragmatic-Type-Level-Design
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Part I Type-level software design
- 1 Approaching the type-level design?
- 1.1 Static types and correctness
- 1.1.1 Correctness of data structures
- 1.1.2 Correctness of data models
- 1.1.3 Correctness of languages
- 1.2 Emergent type-level design
- 1.2.1 Type-level versus type-safe
- 1.2.2 Terminology, base principles, and philosophy
- 1.2.3 Use cases for the type-level design
- 1.3 The foreshadowing of extensibility
- 1.3.1 The variety of variations
- 1.3.2 Extension points and interfaces
- 1.3.3 Preparing the ground
- 1.3.4 Not an extensibility and not a design
- 1.4 Summary
- 1.1 Static types and correctness
- 2 Type-level design basics
- 2.1 Drafting the design
- 2.1.1 Simple type class
- 2.1.2 The critique of the simple design
- 2.2 Four cardinal points of a type class
- 2.2.1 Multiparameter type class
- 2.2.2 Type class with a functional dependency
- 2.2.3 Type class with an associated type
- 2.2.4 Type class with an associated ADT
- 2.2.5 Why type-level features are hard
- 2.3 Summary
- 2.1 Drafting the design
- 1 Approaching the type-level design?
- Part II Type-level domain-specific languages (TODO)
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