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		lucian1900 on July 2, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Breaking a Toy Hash Function The syntax in the article desugars to the method calls you remember (which are the common HOFs). Since the calls are lazy, they can also generate SQL when asked to execute.

dashN9ne on July 2, 2013 [–]

I've not heard the term 'HOF' before and didn't find it/expand it with a cursory search. Could you define/expand it?

lucian1900 on July 2, 2013 | [–]

I had (mistakenly) thought it's a commonly known term.

Wikipedia explains it better than I could http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_function

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