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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by gpderetta on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @06:00AM (#28522443) 

  h(x).f().g()
Is also very common and I would say it counts, especially if the language support something like extension methods.
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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by chriswarbo on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @07:50AM (#28523274)
> especially if the language support something like extension methods

Extension methods are a bit of a hack (although useful!); a cleaner approach is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Function_Call_Syntax although I've not personally used a language which supports it :(

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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by gpderetta on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @08:37AM (#28523806)
I'm a big fan of UFC myself.
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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by chromatin on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:50AM (#28525709)
I don’t know if I would say it’s very common(?) but it was introduced as a named concept (“uniform function call syntax”) AFAIK in D and is also a feature of Nim

https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/gems/uniform-function-call-sy...

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