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by haskman
250 days ago
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The name lens came from the property of their letting you "focus" onto parts of a larger data structure. The prism nomenclature is more tenuous - prisms evoke the imagery of a beam of light splitting into its constituent parts, and with a prism you can see a particular facet of the whole (sum types). |
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