partial application

[C.Reinke]

> ..I was thinking of the following syntax. I orginally had the
> idea for C++, where you can't do partial application at all.

?

  FC++: Functional Programming in C++
  http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~yannis/fc++/

(I wouldn't be defending C++ otherwise, but its set of things you
can't do at all must be a lot smaller than in other languages;-)

They seem to support the _ notation, btw.


Laurent Dami had a lambda-calculus variant that allowed for partial
application by name instead of by position (amongst several other
interesting features:)

  http://cui.unige.ch/~dami/publis.html


Claus

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