On 2009-01-28, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote: > Function Application is not Currying
That's correct, Xah. Currying is a special case of function application. A currying function is applied to some other function, and returns function that has fewer arguments. In some languages, you don't see the currying function. It's invisibly performed whenever you forget an argument. Hit a three argument function with only two arguments, and you don't get a nice ``insufficient arguments in function call'' error, but the call is diverted to the currying function, which gives you back a function of one argument, which you can then call with the missing argument to compute the original function. > Xah Lee, 2009-01-28 > > In Jon Harrop's book Ocaml for Scientist at > http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/chapter1.html Figures you'd be reading this. Learning anything? > It says: > > Currying > > A curried function is a function which returns a function as its > result. > > LOL. That is incorrect. Yawn. Say it isn't so. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
