partial application

Cagdas Ozgenc co19@cornell.edu
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:02:01 +0200 

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Greetings.

Is there a reason why partial application cannot be applied in arbitrary =
order? Was it a technical difficulty in the design of Haskell? Or is it =
just following beta reduction rigorously?

Thanks


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