Chapter 4. Wielding functions
This chapter covers
- Why anonymous functions are so important
- The ways that functions can be referenced for invocation, including recursively
- Storing references to functions
- Using the function context to get our way
- Dealing with variable-length argument lists
- Determining whether an object is a function
In the previous chapter, we focused on how JavaScript treats functions as first-class objects, and how that enables a functional programming style. In this chapter, we’ll expand on how to use those functions to solve various problems that we might come across when authoring web applications.
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