[Haskell-cafe] Haskell's currying and partial application

Jules Bean jules at jellybean.co.uk
Tue Jul 3 09:50:13 EDT 2007


Henning Thielemann wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
> 
>> IMHO when reading
>>
>> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Currying
>>
>> a newbie like me cannot see the difference between currying and partial application...
> 
> Better now?

Much better, IMO, although I still don't like the part with four 
examples of sections. Sure, sections are cool but they have nothing much 
to do with currying. Even if our binary operators were defined 
uncurried, we could have identical syntactic sugar for sections...

Jules


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