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Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function?

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From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Organization PointedEars Software (PES)
Date 2011-07-19 00:33 +0200
Subject Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function?
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> Dave Angel wrote:
>> On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>>> def makeadder(y)
>>>     def _add(x): return x+y
>>> add2 = makeadder(2)
>> 
>> A couple of typos in that code:
>> 
>> def makeaddr(y):
>>      def _add(x): return x+y
>>      return _add
> 
> I agree about the `return' statement, but not about the factory name; this
> has nothing to do with addresses (addr).

Supplemental: The above can be simplified to

def makeadder(y): return lambda x: x + y

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Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Dave Angel <davea@ieee.org> - 2011-07-18 17:45 -0400
  Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-07-19 00:28 +0200
    Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-07-19 00:33 +0200
      Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-07-19 08:22 +0200
      Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-07-19 10:49 -0600
      Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-07-19 18:58 +0200
      Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-07-19 11:15 -0600
    Re: Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Dave Angel <davea@ieee.org> - 2011-07-19 06:07 -0400
    Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-07-19 12:47 -0400

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