higher-order function
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English
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]higher-order function (plural higher-order functions )
- (computer science ) A function that takes one or more functions as an input, and returns a function as a result.
- Synonym: HOF
- 2005, Mark Jason Dominus, Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 325:
- A higher-order function is a function that operates on other functions instead of on data values. Some of these take data arguments and manufacture functions to order; others, like the
imap()function of Chapter 4, transform one function into another one.
Translations
[edit ]high-order function
- German: Funktion höherer Ordnung f
- Serbo-Croatian: funkcija višeg reda f