‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful!

In the past two columns, we’ve looked at higher-order functions and talked a little bit about the power of functional programming. So far, the concepts we’ve covered do little to indicate how ...

In TypeScript talk this is called an "ambient declaration." I added my ambient declaration to the top of the file with the Backbone View that will call my JavaScript function (if I thought I might use ...