Re: Example of expression bias?

From: Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.quelquechose_at_free.quelquepart.fr>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:20:24 +0200
Message-ID: <44aae883$0$30040$626a54ce@news.free.fr>

Erwin a écrit :

>>That leads you away from OOP and into the
>>use of higher-order functions

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> Where can I inform myself on this notion of higher-order functions ?

google broken ?-)

A higher-order function is basically a function that either takes a function as argument and/or returns a function (usually a closure in fact). It's one of the basis of functional programing, but is also used in some mostly OO language(s). Received on Tue Jul 04 2006 - 17:20:24 CDT