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When is storing a reference to a function in a variable actually useful? I don't understand why it's need, maybe I'm just overlooking something, I just really don't see when that would be useful. Anyone who can explain this, I will greatly appreciate your explanation.

deeznuts 10mo ago

Sometimes you want to pass the function to a new scope to execute and the closure around that function is available where it might not be

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Skhron - VPS for Bitcoin, Lightning and Monero 10mo ago

Sounds like callback, completely forgot about this one

LibertyImp 10mo ago

Couldn't you just call the function like you normally would though? I'm new to this and if I'm dumb for this I'm ok with that lol.

deeznuts 10mo ago

If the closure does not exist inside the scope you’d like to call it on then yes, you need to pass it as a variable depending on language of course