L6: Higher-Order Functions and Lambdas

Lesson in Preparation (WIP)

This lesson is currently undergoing pedagogical drafting and development. It will soon be available with detailed visual diagrams, in-depth explanations, and its corresponding milestone in the AI Chat CLI incremental lab.

What will you learn in this lesson?

In this lesson we will explore:

• Deep Theory: Functions as first-class citizens, function types (A) -> B, trailing lambda syntax, and performance optimization with inline, noinline, and crossinline.
• Under the Hood: JVM heap instantiation of anonymous FunctionN objects and how inline eliminates runtime memory allocation overhead.
• Incremental Lab (AI Chat CLI): Building a customizable message sanitization and censorship pipeline (myFilter, transformMessage) for user inputs.

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