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+### First-class function
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+A programming language is said to have first-class functions if it treats them as first-class citizens, meaning they can be passed as arguments, be returned as values from other functions, be assigned to variables and stored in data structures.
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+### Higher-order function
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+Higher-order functions or functors are functions that either take other functions as arguments, return a function as a result, or both.
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