First class functions in Go

Question

I come from JavaScript which has first class function support. For example you can:

• pass a function as a parameter to another function
• return a function f

Answer 1

Go Language and Functional Programming might help. From this blog post:

package main
import fmt "fmt"
type Stringy func() string
func foo() string{
        return "Stringy function"
}
func takesAFunction(foo Stringy){
    fmt.Printf("takesAFunction: %v\n", foo())
}
func returnsAFunction()Stringy{
    return func()string{
        fmt.Printf("Inner stringy function\n");
        return "bar" // have to return a string to be stringy
    }
}
func main(){
    takesAFunction(foo);
    var f Stringy = returnsAFunction();
    f();
    var baz Stringy = func()string{
        return "anonymous stringy\n"
    };
    fmt.Printf(baz());
}

Author is the blog owner: Dethe Elza (not me)