[Haskell-cafe] Currying: The Rationale

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Wed, 23 May 2007, PR Stanley wrote:

> Hi
> What is the rationale behind currying? is it for breaking subroutines into
> pure one-to-one mappings?

We don't have 'subroutines' as such, but otherwise yes. Also, it gives us 
partial application - we don't have to apply all the parameters at once, 
and we can do interesting and useful things by applying only some to get a 
new function.

> If f x y = f x -> a function which takes y for
> argument then does that mean that the second function already has value x, as
> it were, built into it?

Yep, though I can't make sense of what your syntax is supposed to mean.

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