[Haskell-cafe] Currying

Peter Berry pwberry at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 09:06:30 EST 2007


On 18/01/07, Chris Eidhof <chris at eidhof.nl> wrote:
> That's exactly what I love about haskell: it saves me from a
> lot of unnecessary typing. After all, I'm a lazy programmer ;)

Lazy languages for lazy programmers 8)

On 18/1/2007, Johan Grönqvist <johan.gronqvist at gmail.com> wrote:
> add x y = x + y
> map (add 2) [1..5]

Don't know if you know this, but infix operators like (+) are
functions too, and you can partially apply them using 'sections':

map (+2) [1..5]

It's only syntax, but this is one of the things I really like about Haskell.

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