It has the same advantages as combinators: the total computation can be broken down into pieces, tested individually, and then composed and reused, especially p

It has the same advantages as combinators: the total computation can be broken down into pieces, tested individually, and then composed and reused, especially programmatically. Why use functions when you can have one big main(args: Array<String>) with inline comments? btw, a hello-world snippet like /\d+\.\d*/ isn't very scathing criticism of a library.