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What is the domain of a function??
The set from which you can choose inputs.
What is the co-domain of a function??
The set from which outputs come from.
How can you conceptualise a function as a mapping??
A function maps the domain to the co-domain.
If the variables in a program are immutable, what can you say about the program??
It is stateless.
What is referential transparency??
Where you can replace the value of a function call with the value returned.
What is a higher-order function??
A function that takes a function as an argument or returns a function.
What is a predicate function??
A function that returns only true or false.
What is the function called that a higher-order filter calls in order to decide if something is allowed in the list??
A predicate.
What does a fold function do??
Recursively combine elements of the list.
What does head [1,2,3] return??
1
What does tail [1,2,3] RETURN??
[2,3]
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title: Computing - Functional Programming