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Functions are fundamental to code organization; they exist in all higher order programming languages. Generally, functional programming means using functions to the best effect for creating clean and ...

I like the idea for function chaining on functions with many input parameters, but returning a collection could accomplish the same thing. And if you're working with a library that you can't change, ...