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As you can see, the basic idea is pretty simple and also scalable, you could easily extend this to and also return different types of values, such as vectors or hashes. This could for example be used to create wrappers in Nasal space for doing 3D maths, with vectors and matrices, so that a matrix multiplication could return a new matrix, too. | As you can see, the basic idea is pretty simple and also scalable, you could easily extend this to and also return different types of values, such as vectors or hashes. This could for example be used to create wrappers in Nasal space for doing 3D maths, with vectors and matrices, so that a matrix multiplication could return a new matrix, too. | ||
===Functional programming, higher order functions, generators | ===Functional programming, higher order functions, generators (advanced concept) === | ||
As previously mentioned, arguments to a Nasal function can also be functions themselves (Nasal being a functional programming language), this means that Nasal functions are higher order functions so that you can easily pass and return functions to and from Nasal functions. This can for example be used to dynamically create new functions (such functions are commonly called 'generators'): | As previously mentioned, arguments to a Nasal function can also be functions themselves (Nasal being a functional programming language), this means that Nasal functions are higher order functions so that you can easily pass and return functions to and from Nasal functions. This can for example be used to dynamically create new functions (such functions are commonly called 'generators'): | ||