language-features.md

Language Features

This section is ENORMOUS! (see TeachProgramming repo for some trivial examples)

• [async]

• javascript.info/currying-partials

  • Currying is an advanced technique of working with functions. It’s used not only in JavaScript, but in other languages as well.
  • Currying is a transformation of functions that translates a function from callable as f(a, b, c) into callable as f(a)(b)(c).

• Structural pattern matching in Python 3.10 [python] *

• Making a Game in Janet, Part 3: The problem with macros

  • Deep dive into lisp macros - very deep - describes problems with shadowing namespaces

• Features of a dream programming language

  • todo

• Tacit Programming

  • definitions merely compose other functions

  •   def example(x):
          return baz(bar(foo(x)))

  •   from functools import partial, reduce
      def compose(*fns):
          return partial(reduce, lambda v, fn: fn(v), fns)
      example = compose(foo, bar, baz)