You're right of course, but I chose perl builtins to keep the example short. If you consider that each of those 'fn's could be arbitrarily complex and require braces around their arguments that would become

perl -E"say(join('-', split('', reverse(ucfirst('hello')))))"

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Plus I have to admit I kind of screwed up, "functional composition" really means "take two functions and produce a third", like

compose(sub{ ucfirst $[0] }, sub { $_[0] . "\n" });

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would return a function that would ucfirst its arg and append a newline, whereas my code invokes the functions directly. Still, it looks pretty.

Bill H
perl -e 'print sub { "Hello @{[shift->()]}!\n" }->(sub{"World"})'

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In reply to Re^2: Functional Composition by billh
in thread Functional Composition by billh

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