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Are Functions Data? with Yehonathan Sharvit

Software Unscripted

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JavaScript - How to Decode a String Into a Long Digit

An ability is a way to say, for this particular type, if I have a value with that type, there are certain functions that are going to just be available because I've got something of that type. This is also automatically implemented for all of the sort of like standard library types and all the like built in types. And then if you want to, you can make your own custom types, which it customize how they implement those. Having said that, it would be more work than the closure way that he described,. Because what I find interesting, and it's back to you first point about Java, even probably in some languages like rock you can do.

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