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Introducing ReScript: Functional Programming for Web Applications
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Introducing ReScript: Functional Programming for Web Applications

by Danny Yang
December 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
281 pages
3h 36m
English
Apress
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D. YangIntroducing ReScripthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8888-7_2

2. Functions

Danny Yang1  
(1)
Mountain View, CA, USA
 

In this chapter, you will learn how to write and use functions in ReScript, and discuss topics such as recursion, pipes, and polymorphism. We’ll also introduce functional programming concepts like purity and using functions as values.

Defining and Using Functions

ReScript’s function definition syntax is very similar to the syntax for anonymous functions in JavaScript. The body of a function is a single expression or block, and the result of evaluating the body is the value that is returned from the function.

Here is a function that adds ...
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