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diff --git a/docs/doc/functional.html b/docs/doc/functional.html index 50d70af5..1595e5ae 100644 --- a/docs/doc/functional.html +++ b/docs/doc/functional.html @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ <link href="../style.css" rel="stylesheet"/> <title>BQN: Functional programming</title> </head> -<div class="nav"><a href="https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN">BQN</a> / <a href="../index.html">main</a> / <a href="index.html">doc</a></div> +<div class="nav">(<a href="https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN">github</a>) / <a href="../index.html">BQN</a> / <a href="index.html">doc</a></div> <h1 id="functional-programming">Functional programming</h1> <p>BQN boasts of its functional capabilities, including first-class functions. What sort of functional support does it have, and how can a BQN programmer exercise these and out themself as a Schemer at heart?</p> <p>First, let's be clear about what the terms we're using mean. A language has <em>first-class functions</em> when functions (however they are defined) can be used in all the same ways as "ordinary" values like numbers and so on, such as being passed as an argument or placed in a list. Lisp and JavaScript have first-class functions, C has unsafe first-class functions via function pointers, and Java 7 and APL don't have them as functions can't be placed in lists or used as arguments. This doesn't mean every operation is supported on functions: for instance, numbers can be added, compared, and sorted; while functions could perhaps be added to give a train, comparing or sorting them as functions (not representations) isn't computable, and BQN doesn't support any of the three operations when passing functions as arguments.</p> |