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Title shows author doesn't understand programming language design. No, a small set of higher-order functions[1] is not as fundamental as the concept of higher-o
by dons 12y ago
Title shows author doesn't understand programming language design. No, a small set of higher-order functions[1] is not as fundamental as the concept of higher-order functions in the first place.
[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2cv6l4/clojures_transducers_are_perverse_lenses/cjjgbbs?context=3 http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2cv6l4/clojures_tra...
- ithayer 12y agoAuthor here, thanks for the comment -- since that seemed to have been lost, I'm using "fundamental" because transducers let you describe your logic so that it that can be applied over sequences and non-sequences in a way that you cannot by just applying composed logic functions through existing clojure machinery. EDIT: s/composed functions/composed logic functions/