Functional Programming
Functional Programming, FP for short, is a programming paradigm where programs are built by combining pure functions, avoiding shared state, and minimizing side effects. Instead of focusing on ‘how to do things’ step by step, FP focuses on ‘what to compute’ by composing functions.
PHP supports anonymous functions, closures, iterators and higher-order functions, needed for Functional programming.
See Also
- Functional Programming in PHP · 2nd Edition
- Thinking Functionally in PHP?
- Functional Programming with PHP Generators
Related
- OOP (Object Oriented Programming)
- Paradigm
- Partial Function
- Procedural Programming
- Side Effect
- Declarative Programming
- Determinism
- Functor
- Imperative Programming
- Memoization
- Currying
- Higher-Kinded Type
- List Comprehension
- Monad