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Re:The unknown features of Python's `operator` module by wruza on Sunday August 08, 2021 @02:28PM (#28108900)
It’s higher order for the sake of higher order, and unreadable as hell when you return to five full pages of this nonsense a year later. These getter-caller generators are cool to show off, but irl the most naturally readable form is either a plain anonymous function, or a special form suggested by a sibling commenter.

Both by a compiler easily readable by a human unreadable out of purely functional languages by design this high fashion came.

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Re:The unknown features of Python's `operator` module by klyrs on Sunday August 08, 2021 @07:55PM (#28111311)
Sometimes you need to do higher order stuff (or, maybe you don't? But it exists for good reason)

Do you think it's better to use a conceptually difficult example to showcase a high order function? Or do you think it's better to show an example where the reader can accurately understand the concept and focus on what the function does?

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