From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Invoking a function from a list of functions
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:37:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmuqi5hxp.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20181109162201.GD2179@mail.akwebsoft.com
> That is exactly correct, yet I find nothing on this topic using
> “first-class functions” as a keyword/phrase.
I'm not sure exactly what kind of information you're looking for about
that, but maybe other related keywords might be "indirect function call"
(i.e. `funcall`) and "higher-order function" (which is the term used to
denote the functions that manipulate other functions, such as `mapcar`).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-09 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-08 23:01 Invoking a function from a list of functions Tim Johnson
2018-11-09 1:25 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-11-09 6:03 ` Tim Johnson
2018-11-09 10:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-11-09 11:52 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-11-09 13:12 ` Van L
2018-11-09 16:14 ` Tim Johnson
2018-11-09 14:16 ` Yuri Khan
2018-11-09 16:22 ` Tim Johnson
2018-11-09 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.3694.1541743398.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-11-09 7:09 ` Ihor Radchenko
2018-11-09 8:58 ` Andreas Röhler
2018-11-09 16:24 ` Tim Johnson
[not found] <mailman.3677.1541718983.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-11-12 5:39 ` Rusi
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