Composing functions
We programmers, love reusing code. We use libraries and frameworks, so we use something that already exists out there. No one wants to reinvent the same wheel again. For example, here is how we could weed out zeroes from a Clojure vector:
user=> (filter (complement zero?) [0 1 2 0 3 4]) (1 2 3 4)
The following diagram shows the functional composition:
We composed behavior by composing predicate functions; we did this using complement to negate the zero? predicate function. The zero? predicate returns true if its input is 0; if not, it returns false.
Given a list of numbers, the following Scala snippet checks whether the sequence ...
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