Re:Swift and the Legacy of Functional Programming
by solidsnack9000 on Monday November 21, 2016 @01:05PM
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The author of this article did reference a classic treatment, though: John Backus's lecture.
A compact definition of functional programming is using only expressions, never statements. This leads to the idea that the effect or meaning of every computation must be encoded in its return value.
A compact definition of functional programming is using only expressions, never statements. This leads to the idea that the effect or meaning of every computation must be encoded in its return value.