pure functions, higher-order functions, lazy evaluation, closures, and currying. Examples in this section are coded in JavaScript because its simplicity, relative to Java, will allow us to focus ...

A "pure function" is a function that maps an input to an output and does nothing else. In other words, a pure function has no side effects. IO.readLine() returns an IO action that, if run, would ...

Minborg also introduced jextract, a tool that mechanically generates Java bindings, built upon the FFM API, from native library headers. The following example calls a native quick sort function.

If you want to master functional programming, the best place to start is with the Java Function interface. This example will show you four different ways to implement this functional interface in your ...