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Back2Basics: Understanding Partial Function – #2

In previous blog Understanding Partial Functions – #1, we have talked about what is partial function and how they are different from regular functions. In this blog, we will explore more about the partial function.

We have talked about how we can define partial functions having one argument. But what to do if we have to pass more than one argument.

Let’s try defining divide method which takes two…

Back2Basics: Understanding Partial Functions – #1

In this blog, we will be going to talk about partial functions. We know about functions in Scala. Let’s talk about it first.

So, what is a function?

A function is a mapping or a transformation of an input to an output.

For example,  we have function isEven, which takes an int value and retuns boolean value.

scala> def isEven(x :Int) = x % 2 == 0 isEven: (x: Int)Boolean scala> isEven(12) res0:…