Functions Of Functions Returning Functions
Lawrence D’Oliveiro
lawrencedo99 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 16:26:51 EDT 2016
On Monday, September 19, 2016 at 6:54:31 PM UTC+12, dieter wrote:
> Some time ago, we had a (quite heated) discussion here ...
I have noticed that people get very defensive about things they don’t understand.
> 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.
Maybe if the alternative meant writing 200 extra lines of code (as in this case), they might feel differently...
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