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Re:Functors and Monads for People Who Have Read Too Many “Tu... by _ph_ on Saturday June 26, 2021 @09:46AM (#27641792)
Sounds like you are describing high order functions as they are known from Lisp?
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Re:Functors and Monads for People Who Have Read Too Many “Tu... by aszen on Saturday June 26, 2021 @03:50PM (#27645203)
Yes higher order functions. A function that takes a function as an argument or returns a function. In lisp you can think of a higher order function as taking data, processing it and then returning it just like any other normal function because code is data.
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