Reference
Ad-hoc material that supports the rest of the book without fitting inside a specific chapter. Dip in when you need a term defined, want to trace what changed between versions, or are curious about the library's performance envelope.
| Page | What it is |
|---|---|
| More Functional Thinking | Recommended reading beyond Higher-Kinded-J: books, papers, and community resources for deepening your functional programming knowledge. |
| Glossary | Concise definitions of the terms used throughout the book: HKT, type class, monad, witness, and so on. |
| Release History | A version-by-version record of what changed and why. Useful when picking up after an upgrade, or writing your own release notes against a specific version. |
| Benchmarks & Performance | Empirical measurements of the library's overhead and scaling characteristics, with guidance on when HKT simulation matters and when it doesn't. |
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