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php-fp/php-fp-maybe
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An implementation of the Maybe monad in PHP.

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Intro
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The Maybe monad is one of the first monads that you're likely to encounter when reading about monadic functional programming and, more generally, some very basic error handling. Its purpose is to model early-abort computation. Take the following example:

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