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Re: Higher order functions in zsh (article link)

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From: Stephen Blott <smblott@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Higher order functions in zsh (article link)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 08:40:02 +0000
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 10:55:01AM +0530, rahul wrote:

THis has been posted on reddit programming, thought I'd share with you.

http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Higher-order-function-in-zsh/index.html

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The examples look like those of a Java programmer translating their Javaprogramming style to shell programming. They can be better solved withzargs or, if you insist on a Posix shell, then pipes. Pipes in Unix-likesystems play exactly the role of map, filter and reduce in functionalsystems.

That's not to say that there's no merit to the idea. I'd just like to seemore compelling examples.


Steve

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