Functional programming in Python

Ketil Malde ketil@ii.uib.no
29 May 2001 22:44:38 +0200


Jerzy Karczmarczuk <karczma@info.unicaen.fr> writes:

>> BTW, before I knew Haskell I exprimented with a syntax in which 'x f'
>> is the application of 'f' to 'x', and 'x f g' means '(x f) g'. 

> Hmmm. An experimental syntax, you say...
> Oh, say, you reinvented FORTH?

Wouldn't 
        x f g
in a Forth'ish machine mean
        g(f,x)   -- using "standard" math notation, for a change
rather than
        g(f(x))
?

-kzm
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