‘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 ...

ECMAScript 6 returns JavaScript to original intent. news analysis. Oct 23, 2014 7 mins. ... Husain: A function returns a value. The thing about a function is the consumer is in control.

When a bash function ends its return value is its status: zero for success, non-zero for failure. To return values, you can set a global variable with the result, or use command substitution, or you ...

Over the years, multiple studies have found that Google Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine was returning not-so-random numbers when you called the Math.random() function. Today that’s been fixed ...

M4N asks:. Is there a reason why functions in most(?) programming languages are designed to support any number of input parameters but only one return value?