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Re: Functional Programming and python

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Date 2013-09-24 08:07 -0700
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Subject Re: Functional Programming and python
From rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>

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On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 8:21:19 PM UTC+5:30, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> Would the type system get in the way of providing some analogous
> function in Haskell? I don't know.

Yes.
The haskell curry
curry f x y = f (x,y)
is really only curry2
curry3 would be
curry3 f x y z = f (x,y,z)
and so on upwards

Vanilla Haskell makes it real hard to put all these under one type umbrella

By comparison python's partial is quite effortless.

And this is an old conundrum in programming language design:

In C printf is easy to write and NOT put into the language but into external libraries
In Pascal, writeln cannot be outside the language because as a user defined function, its type would not fit the type system.

And so printf can be made to crash quite easily; not so writeln!

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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
              Re: Functional Programming and python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-01 17:28 +1000

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