[Haskell-cafe] Real World Haskell: confusion

[Peter Verswyvelen]

Ah. That explains my confusion. But isn't that ambiguous terminology? There
must be some reason for it to be that way?
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Eugene Kirpichov <ekirpichov at gmail.com>wrote:

> The term 'currying' means both of these things:
>  - Converting an uncurried function to a 'curriable' one
>  - Partially applying a 'curriable' function
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> 2009/1/13 Peter Verswyvelen <bugfact at gmail.com>:
> > On page 102: "partial function application is named currying"
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> > I thought "currying" or "to curry" means converting
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> > f :: (a,b) ->c
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> > g :: a -> b -> c
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> > by applying "curry" (mmm, are Asian people good at Haskell? :-)
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> > g = curry f
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