Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!news.space.net!news.osn.de!diablo2.news.osn.de!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.021 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.96; '*S*': 0.00; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'that).': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:Programming': 0.16; 'surprising': 0.16; 'subject:python': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'decorators': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'function': 0.29; 'something': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'received:it': 0.37; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.38; 'does': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'received:2': 0.84; 'received:fastwebnet.it': 0.84; 'so...': 0.84; 'surname': 0.84; 'rusi': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Vito De Tullio Subject: Re: Functional Programming and python Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 20:24:53 +0200 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2-229-9-244.ip194.fastwebnet.it User-Agent: KNode/4.11.1 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 16 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1379960705 news.xs4all.nl 15896 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:54970 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:54658 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"? -- By ZeD