Introduction - Functional programming concepts in PureScript

Specify Function Arguments using Types in PureScript

Use One Function Argument at a Time with Currying and Partial Application in PureScript

Basic Data Constructors in PureScript

Break up Expressions into Cases in PureScript using Simple Pattern Matching 

Types Alias and Instances in PureScript

Recursion in Purescript

Creating your own length function using recursion in Purescript

Algebraic data type in PureScript and Show instance

Lists and Infix operators in PureScript

Functor and map in PureScript

Filter in PureScript

Concat and ConcatMap in PureScript

Foldl in PureScript

Making functions using foldl in PureScript

Functional Programming Concepts in Purescript

In PureScript, you pattern match against the base case to achieve recursion. 

In this lesson, you will learn exactly how to do that by implementing a recursive solution to a factorial function.

Instructor: [00:00] to do this, we'll create a function called fact. That will take an int and return it an int. Pattern match on that, and what we'll do is fact 0that returns us 1. Then, fact n, that will return us n*fact and n-1.

[00:14] It might have become apparent that we're actually creating a factorial function. We'll test this out, and it's fact 3, that will return us 6. Let's try fact 6, and that will return us 720. Let's quickly explain how a factorial works. Passing 6 to our factorial function would actually be 6*5*4*3*2*1. That would return us 720.

[00:42] When you first call factorial, the n becomes a 6, and a 6 here. Then, you're doing 6-1, which is 5. We're using the 5 to actually pass back into fact, which would then do fact 5 * fact 4 * fact 3 * 2 * 1. Technically once it had reached 1, what it'd do would be fact 1-1, which would give us fact 0That would return a 1.

[01:09] Pattern matching against 0is what we do to get out of our function. If you imagine that we didn't, then it'd keep going into -1, -2, -3, and so on, right up to the point where you'd end up having a slack overflow and everything blowing up.

[01:22] Now, you should be able to see how we're creating this recursion by calling fact within fact and continuing to the point where we pattern match against 0That would come out of our recursion and return us the result which is 720. There you have it, how to do recursion in PureScript.

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