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The Mondrian introduction to functional optics

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The Mondrian introduction to functional optics

In this post I’d like to try to discuss what functional optics are, without going too much into why they are so cool, and you should use them, or how they are implemented1 and should be used with a specific language and library. I personally think that functional optics should be a really easy concept to grasp, but currently learning them is harder than it should be mostly due to library implementation details, quite obscure documentation and an exotic usage of weird symbols. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I will introduce and use a graphical notation to illustrate the concepts…

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