Re:WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets
by WoodTree on Monday December 23, 2019 @06:28AM
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Map, filter, and fold are higher order functions, functions which take functions as parameters.
You are misusing the word callback. A callback is a function passed to another thread that will maybe be invoked later as a response (like it calls you back).
Re:WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets
by zbentley on Monday December 23, 2019 @07:54AM
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That's not what a callback is. A callback is just a function passed to an outer function that the outer function may call.
Even MDN uses the term callback to describe e.g. the argument to 'map': https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
In contrast, Lodash goes out of its way not to use the term "callback", presumably to avoid confusion since it's a place where many functions-that-take-a-function-argument do not call the provided function, e.g. https://lodash.com/docs/#curry
Re:WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets
by BiteCode_dev on Monday December 23, 2019 @07:28AM
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But even without that, I'm not saying they are comparable. I'm saying the same API will use explicit anonymous callbacks in JS and something else in Python (decorators, subclassing, protocols, generators...). I'm saying that the same API will use __iter__ in Python and something else in JS (type conversion, proxy object, explicit method call...).
E.G, this is a Python pattern you'll find in contextlib or in pytest fixtures:
This uses Python iteration mechanism to run code at 3 different times in a life cycle.While in JS, you would pass 3 callbacks.