On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> Seriously though... this ties in with the other issues about *purely* >> functional languages being rather impractical, and the purity >> generally being sullied some by things like monads (which I still >> don't understand, despite the explanations in another thread). > > > If you'd like to understand better, I could put together > an example that illustrates the basic idea behind monads > using Python. It's really not that hard; it only seems > hard because it's traditionally presented in a very > abstract and mathematical way. > > In the process, I think I could also answer your earlier > question about why automatic currying is considered such > a good idea.
Wasn't my question, but sure, would be happy to hear about that. How do you handle variadic functions? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
