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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:45:56 -0400
From: Dave Angel <davea@ieee.org>
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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