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Naming closures or functions absolutely is a good substitute for a large class of comments. When you write a comment as a function name, that comment gets maintained when the code changes. It also encourages modularizing your code- often when you write a comment it's a sign that your code is trying to operate conceptually on more than one level and it would be more understandable to separate those levels.

I wouldn't say comments are an antipattern but they are a code smell and should be used sparingly and only where the same explanation can't be given through function/variable naming or refactoring.