[Haskell-cafe] Very simple parser

[Tim Chevalier]

On 7/2/07, Gregory Propf <gregorypropf at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> This was a bit baffling too.  It appears that there's an implied argument to runTick.  This also works and makes it more explicit.  I suppose the compiler just works out that the only place to put the 'n' is after tick.
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> runTick :: Int -> (String,Int)
> runTick n = runState tick n
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Not exactly. Look up "currying". (Writing out the same definition with
the argument "n" specified explicitly like you did is called
"eta-expansion", by the way.)

Cheers,
Tim

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