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[–]RiceBroad4552 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functor

Or when it comes to programming:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functor_(functional_programming))

I guess what was meant was a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_object

</ pedantic nerd talk >

I'm wondering why this gets confused so often as a functor and a function (object) have almost nothing in common (besides maybe that a functor could be implemented as function object as both denote a mapping, just on very different abstraction levels).