higher-order function

English

Noun

higher-order function (plural higher-order functions)

1. (computer science) A function that takes one or more functions as an input, and returns a function as a result.

   Synonym: HOF

   • 2005, Mark Jason Dominus, Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 325:

     A higher-order function is a function that operates on other functions instead of on data values. Some of these take data arguments and manufacture functions to order; others, like the imap() function of Chapter 4, transform one function into another one.

Translations

high-order function

• German: Funktion höherer Ordnung f
• Serbo-Croatian: funkcija višeg reda f