It was attempted to call a value like a function, but the value is not actually a function. Some code expects you to provide a function, but that didn't happen.

That standard library function pow has several drawbacks: relatively slow not compatible with physical quantities libraries like mp-units not exact not very readable not adapted to integers. In nearly all …

If a function is constructable, it can be called with new, i.e. new User(). If a function is callable, it can be called without new (i.e. normal function call). Functions created through function declarations / …

How should I use array of function pointers in C? How can I initialize them?

466 I have a Python function which takes several arguments. Some of these arguments could be omitted in some scenarios.

See Python PEP 8: Function and Variable Names: Function names should be lowercase, with words separated by underscores as necessary to improve readability. Variable names follow the same …

In the snippet above, the setTimeout function takes 2 arguments, the callback function and a minimum time in ms for the function to be called, so when passing the callback function we're going to use bind …

When called within VBA the function will return a range object, but when called from a worksheet it will return just the value, so set test = Range("A1") is exactly equivalent to test = Range("A1").Value, …

I agree that if all @Alex58 wants to do is run a single function a parameterized ScriptBlock is the way to go. But if he is defining multiple functions or an advanced function, InitializationScript can be very …

In a functional language, you could pass in the mass of the earth to the function and then partially evaluate it. What you'd get back is another function that takes only two arguments and calculates the …