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Re: Functional Programming and python

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Date 2013-09-24 00:08 -0700
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Subject Re: Functional Programming and python
From rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>

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On Monday, September 23, 2013 11:54:53 PM UTC+5:30, Vito De Tullio wrote:
> rusi wrote:
> 
> > [Not everything said there is correct; eg python supports currying better
> > [than haskell which is surprising considering that Haskell's surname is
> > [Curry!]
> 
> 
> AFAIK python does not support currying at all (if not via some decorators or 
> something like that).
> 
> 
> Instead every function in haskell implicitly support currying... so... how 
> does "no support" is better than "full support"?

Without resorting to lambdas/new-functions:
 With functools.partial one can freeze any subset of a function(callable's) 
 parameters.
 
 In Haskell one can only freeze the first parameter or at most with a right section the second

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  Re: Where to suggest improvements in the official Python documentation? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-03 16:43 -0400
    Re: Where to suggest improvements in the official Python documentation? Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-08-04 09:30 -0700
      Re: Where to suggest improvements in the official Python documentation? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-08-04 14:34 -0400
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          Re: Where to suggest improvements in the official Python documentation? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-08-20 10:57 -0400
      Functional Programming and python rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-22 19:21 -0700
        Re: Functional Programming and python Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio@gmail.com> - 2013-09-23 20:24 +0200
          Re: Functional Programming and python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-09-24 10:06 +0300
          Re: Functional Programming and python rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-24 00:08 -0700
            Re: Functional Programming and python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-09-24 10:42 +0300
              Re: Functional Programming and python rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-24 05:14 -0700
                Re: Functional Programming and python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-09-24 17:51 +0300
                Re: Functional Programming and python rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-24 08:07 -0700
                Re: Functional Programming and python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-25 01:26 +1000
                Re: Functional Programming and python rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-24 10:25 -0700
        Re: Functional Programming and python Franck Ditter <nobody@nowhere.org> - 2013-09-30 19:04 +0200
          Re: Functional Programming and python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-01 03:17 +1000
          Re: Functional Programming and python Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-09-30 18:36 +0000
            Re: Functional Programming and python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-01 00:14 +0000
              Re: Functional Programming and python Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-10-01 13:59 +0000
          Re: Functional Programming and python Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2013-09-30 14:55 -0400
            Re: Functional Programming and python Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-09-30 22:37 +0200
              Re: Functional Programming and python Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2013-10-01 13:31 -0400
          Re: Functional Programming and python Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-09-30 20:29 +0200
          Re: Functional Programming and python Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-09-30 16:02 -0500
          Re: Functional Programming and python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-01 00:41 +0000
          Re: Functional Programming and python alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-10-01 11:03 +1000
          Re: Functional Programming and python Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-09-30 21:03 -0400
            Re: Functional Programming and python rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-30 18:36 -0700
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