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How to organize a chain of functions that share parameters, functional programming
When trying to follow a functional programming paradigm, I often find myself in a situation where I have a chain of functions that I would want to combine/compose somehow, but they all also take in a ...
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Best Practice - Wrapping if around function call vs Adding early exit if guard in function
I know this can be very use-case specific, but I find myself wondering this far too often. Is there a generally preferred syntax.
I'm not asking what is the best approach when in a function, I am ...
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Should all functions be fully self-contained (is it bad practice to share a variable between functions)?
There are two ways to do the same thing (pseudo code)
Define databaseHandle in the parent function, and use it as a global in this scope:
function API() {
function openDatabase() {
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