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		dashN9ne on July 2, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Breaking a Toy Hash Function 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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