e004: Functionalized

Date: October 29, 2015

Subject: Functions, methods, closures, and function as arguments!

Notes

This week’s episode covers the basics of all sorts of functions: normal functions, methods, and closures.

Closures

• An explanation (in Ruby) by Martin Fowler
• Rust book
• Rust by Example
• “What is a closure?” (Progammers Stack Exchange) – the first answer is the best, but the second answer may be a helpful stepping stone for people just getting their heads around this and coming from OOP languages like C++ or Java (even though I disagree with the explanation in some ways).
• “What is a closure?” (Stack Overflow) – careful, thorough answer using JavaScript as an example.

Links

• Exercism (hat tip: Lechindanier on GitHub)
• Rust Learning
• Rust and Swift (viii)

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