The Dilemma of Context Binding One of the most notable features of arrow functions is that they do not bind their own this; instead, they inherit the this value from the outer scope. This can simplify ...

First, the most significant feature of arrow functions is that they do not bind their own this, but inherit the this value from the outer scope. At first glance, this may seem like an advantage, but ...

‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order function” ...

Before we go further, it is important to note that this is just a proof of concept and to even use custom functions in Excel, you first need to be using the Office Insider version of Excel and to ...

In the past two columns, we’ve looked at higher-order functions and talked a little bit about the power of functional programming. So far, the concepts we’ve covered do little to indicate how powerful ...