partial application

Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:07:35 +0100


>>>>> "Cagdas" == Cagdas Ozgenc <co19@cornell.edu> writes:

Cagdas>  Koen Claessen contributed:

>> Somehow I do not think that Cagdas was talking about
>> evaluation order at all. I think he referred to the
>> following: Suppose I have a function f which is defined to
>> have 3 arguments:


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

Cagdas> f x y z=...

Cagdas> f # 3 4

As another note on the subject, this is similar to SRFI 26 for Scheme
which can be found at:

http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-26/

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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