First-class function
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first-class-function-184-6573
title:
First-class function
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In computer science, a programming language is said to have first-class functions if it treats functions as first-class citizens. This means the language supports passing functions as arguments to other functions, returning them as the values from other functions, and assigning them to variables or storing them in data structures. Some programming language theorists require support for anonymous functions as well. In languages with first-class functions, the names of functions do not have any sp
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Programming language feature
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_function
date created:
2004-11-12T22:26:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T02:43:43Z
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