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    iari

    11/01/2018, 3:12 AM
    If youve done this more-or-less object oriented thing in javascript and declare some "method" (i.e. function on the prototpye) ...
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    iari

    11/01/2018, 3:13 AM
    then your method can access "this" which refers to the object instance the method is bound to
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    iari

    11/01/2018, 3:15 AM
    you can reference that method simply with a dot - but then the reference to this might be lost
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    iari

    11/01/2018, 3:16 AM
    to counter that you see a lot of this .bind stuff in javascript - or in earlier days before bind was available everywhere something like $.proxy when jquery was fashionable ...
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    iari

    11/01/2018, 3:18 AM
    so what it does is, it "sticks" some context to the function (the this reference) - and thereby it becomes a so called bound method ...
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    iari

    11/01/2018, 3:19 AM
    but sorry, this of course only helps, if the js background is where one comes from and this is encountered a lot
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    iari

    11/01/2018, 3:26 AM
    the :: basically does the same - so in the above code example, the value of x is known in the functions, and implicitly carried over to whatever scope the function-references are used in
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    amanda.hinchman-dominguez

    11/01/2018, 2:09 PM
    No that's a great explanation!!
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    amanda.hinchman-dominguez

    11/01/2018, 2:10 PM
    @iari I was finishing up submissions for Kotlin Thursdays last night: I intend on looking at the links you sent today
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    iari

    11/01/2018, 2:12 PM
    awesome, glad if I could help shed some light. - is Kotlin Thursdays your blog format?
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    iari

    11/01/2018, 2:16 PM
    I don't think I really posted links - i think it was the wiki article on "tacit programming", and the Kotlin reflection doc, which you already knew. On the theoretical end, this Haskell page might also be worth a look: https://wiki.haskell.org/Pointfree
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    hudsonb

    11/01/2018, 6:53 PM
    :: is for Method/Function References
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    amanda.hinchman-dominguez

    11/01/2018, 7:13 PM
    @iari it is! It's hosted on Codetown - it's very old and looks like it's from the 90s, but Mike Levin, the Orlando JUG Admin and I got together earlier this year, and we were interested in finding ways to expose Kotlin to Java users. Codetown is mostly used by Orlando JUG members and the Republic of Congo as well.
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    amanda.hinchman-dominguez

    11/01/2018, 7:16 PM
    I started with writing blogs for a couple frameworks, but this time around, we're creating crowd-sourced tutorials for anyone who wishes to contribute anything Kotlin related. I have a lot of folks in Chicago writing up topics they're interested in, but we're also working with friends around the world
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    iari

    11/01/2018, 7:17 PM
    checking it out right now 😉
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    amanda.hinchman-dominguez

    11/01/2018, 7:17 PM
    They're now in blog and video format. I'm releasing one on Image Processing later tonight, but Matt Moore submitted another video in continuance to what he started last week - https://codetown.com/group/kotlin/forum/topics/wip-kotlin-thursdays-collection-mechanics-with-matt-moore
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    iari

    11/01/2018, 7:17 PM
    it really does look like its from the 90ies xD
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    amanda.hinchman-dominguez

    11/01/2018, 7:17 PM
    hahahaha that it does 😄
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    amanda.hinchman-dominguez

    11/01/2018, 7:17 PM
    The editing for these posts are particularly painful, as well
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    amanda.hinchman-dominguez

    11/01/2018, 7:18 PM
    all HTML/CSS with no formatting 🙃
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    iari

    11/01/2018, 7:18 PM
    I do like the style of Matt Moore ^^
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    amanda.hinchman-dominguez

    11/01/2018, 7:19 PM
    He's very excited to talk about functional programming in Kotlin - his goal is to break that barrier and try to be able to explain monads. He had to back it up a few steps, but I'm really happy with the work he produced.
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    amanda.hinchman-dominguez

    11/01/2018, 7:20 PM
    As a group, we help edit the content/provide feedback and help provide necessary "animations". That's a work in progress at the moment haha
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    iari

    11/01/2018, 7:20 PM
    does he ba any chance use arrow library?
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    amanda.hinchman-dominguez

    11/01/2018, 7:21 PM
    He does not! He wants to. Might be a good KT topic 🙂 He's a Haskell guru
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    iari

    11/01/2018, 7:21 PM
    They seems like they have a decent implementation of serious functional stuff - also theyre püarticipating in the Keep
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    iari

    11/01/2018, 7:22 PM
    The day this thing is accepted I will celebrate
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    Spike Baylor

    11/01/2018, 7:23 PM
    @amanda.hinchman-dominguez interestingly i found kotlin town earlier today because i was searching #communities for Orlando :x and came across an old post of yours.
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    amanda.hinchman-dominguez

    11/01/2018, 7:24 PM
    @Spike Baylor small world!!! If you're looking to get connected with Orlando JUG, Mike Levin is a great guy (and he hosts Codetown as well 🙂 - we still keep correspondence that way)
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    Spike Baylor

    11/01/2018, 7:26 PM
    yeah, i had REALLY never given that kind of thing a thought until joining this slack a few days ago. After spending a few days with this great community getting help, trying to help, and just learning things... Now i'm thinking about looking into it.
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