Functions Of Functions Returning Functions
dieter
dieter at handshake.de
Mon Sep 19 02:53:59 EDT 2016
Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99 at gmail.com> writes:
> The less code you have to write, the better. Less code means less
> maintenance, and fewer opportunities for bugs.
While I agree with you in general, sometimes less code can be harder
to maintain (when it is more difficult to understand).
Some time ago, we had a (quite heated) discussion here about
a one line signature transform involving a triply nested lambda construction.
It was not difficult for me to understand what the construction did;
however, the original poster found it very difficult to grasp.
Often, functions returning functions are more difficult to understand
than "first order" functions (those returning simple values only) --
at least for people not familiar with higher abstraction levels.
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