[Haskell-cafe] Spot the difference!

[PR Stanley]

I must confess that the use of "\_" had me a little confused at first 
but thinking about it I can see that it makes perfect sense to have 
an argument or a wildcard character for any value.
Cheers, Paul


>On Sep 20, 2007, at 0:03 , PR Stanley wrote:
>
>>\_ n -> 1 + n
>>\_ -> (\n -> 1 + n)
>>The outcome seems to be identical. is there a substantive
>>difference between the two definitions?
>>The second one seems to be more expressive of the currying principle.
>>Any thoughts?
>
>I *think* the former is internally converted to the latter; this is
>how currying works.
>
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