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Comment by nathancahill | Hacker News Reader

I understand her point to be about passing called functions. Surely passing functions as values (partials, etc) is fine?

  final_function(maybe_function(X))

  final_function(maybe_function)(x)

Disclaimer, not familiar with Erlang syntax, so the above example is psuedo-code.

"If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program." --Linus

Right, you can pass a function:

final_function(fun() -> maybe_function(X) end)

final_function(maybe_function, X)

if final_function does:

final_function(Function, X) -> Function(X).

Small thing, but `final_function` here needs to be passed `fun maybe_function/1`, not the atom `maybe_function` alone.

Oops, yup. Meant to make it explicit since you can also do: ?MODULE:Function(X)