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Why use tuples as function parameters in languages that support currying?
In languages that support currying, I can't think of many cases where using a tuple as function input parameters would be better than breaking the tuple apart into multiple parameters, which then ...
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Why do most programming languages have special keyword or syntax for declaring functions? [closed]
Most programming languages (both dynamically and statically typed languages) have special keyword and/or syntax that looks much different than declaring variables for declaring functions. I see ...
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Passing a Scala function to a Java 8 method
The following Scala code works and can be passed to a Java method expecting a function. Is there a cleaner way to do this? Here's my first pass: val plusOne = new java.util.function.Function[Int,...
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The idea of functionN in Scala / Functionaljava
From brain driven development It turns out, that every Function you’ll ever define in Scala, will become an instance of an Implementation which will feature a certain Function Trait. There ...
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Functional Methods on Collections
I'm learning Scala and am a little bewildered by all the methods (higher-order functions) available on the collections. Which ones produce more results than the original collection, which ones ...
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