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  2. Python syntax and semantics - Wikipedia

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    In Python, functions are first-class objects that can be created and passed around dynamically. Python's limited support for anonymous functions is the lambda construct. An example is the anonymous function which squares its input, called with the argument of 5:

  3. Python (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    In Python, you define the function as if you were calling it, by typing the function name and then the attributes required. Here is an example of a function that will print whatever is given: def printer ( input1 , input2 = "already there" ): print ( input1 ) print ( input2 ) printer ( "hello" ) # Example output: # hello # already there

  4. Function object - Wikipedia

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    In Python, functions are first-class objects, just like strings, numbers, lists etc. This feature eliminates the need to write a function object in many cases. Any object with a __call__() method can be called using function-call syntax. An example is this accumulator class (based on Paul Graham's study on programming language syntax and ...

  5. Syntax (programming languages) - Wikipedia

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    Terminal symbols are the concrete characters or strings of characters (for example keywords such as define, if, let, or void) from which syntactically valid programs are constructed. Syntax can be divided into context-free syntax and context-sensitive syntax. [7] Context-free syntax are rules directed by the metalanguage of the programming ...

  6. Function (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    Most modern programming languages provide features to define and call functions, including syntax for accessing such features, including: Delimit the implementation of a function from the rest of the program; Assign an identifier, name, to a function; Define formal parameters with a name and data type for each; Assign a data type to the return ...

  7. Function composition (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, function composition is an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated ones. Like the usual composition of functions in mathematics, the result of each function is passed as the argument of the next, and the result of the last one is the result of the whole.

  8. First-class function - Wikipedia

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    The identifier of a regular "function" in Ruby (which is really a method) cannot be used as a value or passed. It must first be retrieved into a Method or Proc object to be used as first-class data. The syntax for calling such a function object differs from calling regular methods. Nested method definitions do not actually nest the scope.

  9. Functional programming - Wikipedia

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    In calculus, an example of a higher-order function is the differential operator /, which returns the derivative of a function . Higher-order functions are closely related to first-class functions in that higher-order functions and first-class functions both allow functions as arguments and results of other functions.