Missing word "that" in the sentence:
"One benefit of higher-order functions is they enable you to..."
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Page 172 (PDF page 214):
Interpreter output, in scala 2.10.2, for the expression:
scala> def first(x: Int) = (y: Int) => x + y
is
first: (x: Int)Int => Int
not, as the book states:
first: (x: Int)(Int) => Int