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JavaScript : Functional Programming for JavaScript Developers

You're reading from   JavaScript : Functional Programming for JavaScript Developers Functional Programming for JavaScript Developers

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Product type Course
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787124660
Length 635 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Appendix B. Glossary of Terms

This appendix covers some of the important terms that are used in this book:

  • Anonymous function: A function that has no name and is not bound to any variables. It is also known as a Lambda Expression.
  • Callback: A function that can be passed to another function to be used in a later event.
  • Category: In terms of Category Theory, a category is a collection of objects of the same type. In JavaScript, a category can be an array or object that contains objects that are all explicitly declared as numbers, strings, Booleans, dates, objects, and so on.
  • Category Theory: A concept that organizes mathematical structures into collections of objects and operations on those objects. The data types and functions used in computer programs form the categories used in this book.
  • Closure: An environment such that functions defined within it can access local variables that are not available outside it.
  • Coupling: The degree to which each program module relies on each of the...
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