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Fun-Tors: Creating and Applying Functors

According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, a functor is "something that performs a function or an operation." From a programming point of view, a functor is a function that can be passed as a parameter and manipulated like other values. Many languages, such as C, have function pointers that hold the actual memory address of a function. In these languages, you can pass a function to another function and then apply it to different arguments. You can use this to apply a function to each member ...