‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order function” ...

The Magical Journey of this: Elusive Pointing In Java, the behavior of this is drastically different from other object-oriented languages. It is not fixed but depends on how the function is called.

We’ll start with the most far-reaching addition, which the spec describes as “a new Iterator global with associated static and prototype methods for working with iterators.” The most exciting part of ...