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by tamana 3778 days ago
Yes. People say "patterns are just first-class functions"but they miss the point that not all functions can be combined with each other in manageable ways, so there is still an art to it.

Also, stuff like "strictness annotation" is not a function.

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> Also, stuff like "strictness annotation" is not a function.

Ah but it should be :)

[Not a function actually, but a type constructor: http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/strictness-in-types/]