I must confess that the use of "\_" had me a little confused at first
but thinking about it I can see that it makes perfect sense to have
an argument or a wildcard character for any value.
Cheers, Paul
On Sep 20, 2007, at 0:03 , PR Stanley wrote:
\_ n -> 1 + n
\_ -> (\n -> 1 + n)
The outcome seems to be identical. is there a substantive
difference between the two definitions?
The second one seems to be more expressive of the currying principle.
Any thoughts?
I *think* the former is internally converted to the latter; this is
how currying works.
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