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

Date	2011-07-18 17:45 -0400
From	Dave Angel <davea@ieee.org>
Subject	Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function?
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On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 7/18/2011 8:24 AM, Paul Woolcock wrote:
>> Partial function application (or "currying") is the act of taking a
>> function with two or more parameters, and applying some of the arguments
>> in order to make a new function.  The "hello world" example for this
>> seems to be this:
>> <snip>
>
> def makeadder(y)
>     def _add(x): return x+y
> add2 = makeadder(2)
>
> <snip>

A couple of typos in that code:


def makeaddr(y):
     def _add(x): return x+y
     return _add


DaveA

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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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