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On a personal note, I'm not sure that it's helpful to have the fat arrow used for what seems to me like two different things: separating the return type from the parameters in the declaration and ...

String functions, integer functions ... booorrring! Tuples in C# 7.0 -- let's explore what makes them infinitely more exciting. String functions return a string. Integer functions return an integer.

‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order function” ...

Functions are fundamental to code organization; they exist in all higher order programming languages. Generally, functional programming means using functions to the best effect for creating clean and ...