What is a functor?
Swift version: 5.6
A functor is any data type that can be mapped over using map(), as long it abides by two laws:
- If your map function is the identity function (i.e. it just returns each element without transformation) then your input and output must be the same.
- If you compose function A and function B to make function C then use the result with
map(), the result should be the same as mapping first A then B individually.
Both of those laws sound obvious, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t important. Arrays are functors, sets are functors, optionals are functors, and more.
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