Functions as First-Class Citizens
Explore the concept of functions as first-class citizens in Elixir. Understand how functions can be passed as arguments and returned, enabling flexible and powerful functional programming patterns.
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What are first-class citizens?
Upon hearing the term first-class citizens, it may seem like some functions are flying first class to Europe. However, when we say that functions are first-class citizens in programming, we mean that they are like any other value. It’s an important feature that came from lambda calculus.
In Elixir, functions are values of type ...