On Feb 26, 12:34 pm, Anand Patil <anand.prabhakar.pa...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Feb 26, 5:27 pm, mikel <mev...@mac.com> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 26, 10:58 am, Anand Patil <anand.prabhakar.pa...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > > On Feb 26, 4:41 pm, mikel <mev...@mac.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Other people have explained currying and partial application, and why
> > > > it doesn't normally spply the feature you want.
>
> > > I'd be interested in reading about this if you know of a link.
>
> > What I meant was, other people have talked about it *in this
> > thread*. :-) As in, farther up the page. :-)
>
> Ha! I see. :) I was hoping for a reason why these languages don't
> provide more general partial application in addition to currying, but
> that's probably available in the Wikipedia article.
I don't know that you'll find that question answered explicitly. I
think the answer would be that (1) supporting that feature creates a
lot of syntactic complexity (you need some notational mechanism for
designating which arguments you're going to apply the function to, and
anything you choose is going to be kind of messy), and (2) with
combinators, you don't need it.
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