Higher Order Functions
Hi There! Here I’m with another interesting topic about the higher order functions. Let’s see what are they and how they can be used..
Functions that take another function as argument or returns a function are called Higher Order Functions.
Now let’s write a program to calculate & print the area, circumference and diameter of a circle. Let’s see how it goes..
The above code is fine will work as expected but there are some issues like the repetition of code and we know the rule DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) in code.
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Let’s go for a more efficient solution now:
This code is much cleaner and isn’t repetitive. The above method can also be implemented using map like below.
If we want calculate function to be called exactly like the map function follow as below :
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