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  1. The latter should sound familiar to #cleanCode and #functionalPurity advocates: to use a value it must be supplied as an argument / parameter.

    And as great as that seems, it flies in the face of 3 decades of #Java history (give or take a few years). Because Java excels at retaining state in Class instances, which feels like the exact opposite of functional purity.

    So a Java programmer reading my software will think I'm mad. (Some have said so.)

    So, let's talk about #currying.