Abstract
Lenses provide a managed (and semantically clear) way to handle updates to immutable objects. They allow you to change a value held by an immutable object by creating a copy of the object containing the updated data.
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Hunt, J. (2013). Lens Pattern. In: Scala Design Patterns. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02192-8_42
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